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Subject:RE: Meg vs. MB vs. M From:"George Mena" <George -dot- Mena -at- esstech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:26:06 -0800
John et al:
The audience/customer may always be right, but when a newbie tech writer is trying to figure things out, that doesn't help much.
What *does* help, IMO, is a detailed response like this one:
MB = megabyte, which refers to the data storage capacity of an SDRAM module or a hard disk drive.
Mb = megabit, which refers to the data storage capacity of on-chip memory found in the silicon architecture of a microprocessor.
