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fghorow on July 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

Back in the day -- when used for a disk drive -- we used to call 1000 * 1024 bytes a "marketing megabyte" and 1024*1024 bytes a "megabyte". YMMV.

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