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|    Mike Easter to Big Al    |
|    Re: Ubuntu 24.04    |
|    07 Jun 24 11:56:42    |
      XPost: alt.os.linux.ubuntu, alt.os.linux.mint       From: MikeE@ster.invalid              Big Al wrote:       > I always thought wp was Word Perfect. Of course that probably would be       > WP in caps.              That gets into the famous 'what something means depends on the context'       concept, with which I don't always agree.              wp can mean wikipedia to me if that is the context; it might mean 'word       processor' or any number of other things depending on specific context.              *HOWEVER* that context idea does NOT mean that kilobyte can mean one       thing in one context and something else in another context. A kilobyte       is 1000 bytes, not 1024. 1024 bytes are a kibibyte.              Abbreviations are one thing; prefixes are another.              --       Mike Easter              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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