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Re: Re[4]: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released (fwd)



>>  Mb is Megabit
>>  MB is MegaByte
>
>If you can point me to an international standard confirming what you said,
>I'll
>admit my ignorance publicily. Honestly, I doubt such a standard exists.

There is no international standard. There is common practice though.
By convention, today, the lowercase b dentoes a bit, while the
uppercase B dentoes Bytes. Hence wire speeds are Kb/s, Mb/s, Gb/s
while media sizes are KB, MB, GB and so forth.

Doron Shikmoni