RE: TI-H: Radio switch


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RE: TI-H: Radio switch




You get straight A's? normally I'd call 32,000 MB: 32 hard drive GB...
thats just me though...

At 04:39 PM 1/12/99 -0900, you wrote:
>
>You have to use the units.  These days with OC148, people could think you
>mean 32,000 MB a second.
>
>
>>That's nice.  What the hell are you talking about?
>>
>>At 07:47 AM 1/11/99 -0900, you wrote:
>>>
>>>weight of a human.  98kg  there isn't units
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>But if you say 32k, logically it means 32 thousand bits.... if you say
>32K,
>>>>then logically it means 32 thousand bytes... it is meaningful too... If I
>>>>go around telling people "yea, I can get 1 "mb" in one second", then
>they'd
>>>>be like "cool, you can download linux in 10 minutes?!?" then you'd be
like
>>>>"no, more like 80 minutes" -- see the diff :)
>>>>
>>>>At 12:53 AM 1/10/99 -0900, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>its the b.  A big B is a byte and a small b is a bit.  the k is just the
>>>>>multiple of the unit.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hmmm.. I have been... My BIG K (as in 150K/sec) is as KiloBYTE per sec.
>A
>>>>>>small k to me is kiloBIT per sec. So, if you wanted to know what I was
>>>>>>getting at with that 150K/sec, it would really be 1200k/sec or in mbit
>>>>>>terms, 1.17 mbit/sec. Essentially, that would be a T1, being that they
>>are
>>>>>>~1.54 mbit/sec. being slightly loaded with other people. See? I know
>what
>>>>>>I'm talking about.. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Also,
>>>>>>Mbit(Mb)=Megabit
>>>>>>MB=Megabyte
>>>>>>Kb(or just k)=kilobit
>>>>>>KB(or K)=kilobyte
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This sound ok?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-jeff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>From:	owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>>>>[mailto:owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Rosyna
>>>>>>Sent:	Sunday, January 10, 1999 2:23 AM
>>>>>>To:	ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>>>>Subject:	RE: TI-H: Radio switch
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You guys must be missing something too. When you see 10Mb/sec or
>>>>>>256k/sec when referring to something that has to do with any kind of
>>>>>>network, ALWAYS divide by 8 to get real world figures.
>>>>>>256k/sec=32k/sec not that fast 1.5Mb/sex=128k/sec see that is why
>>>>>>cable is so dang fast.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>At approximately 10:53 PM +0000GMT on the day Earth People call
>>>>>>1/9/99, Dan declared:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yea, that is what I was thinking - I didn't actually think you meant
a
>>>>>>full
>>>>>>> blown T3... I don't think download.com has a T3, they might, but with
>>>the
>>>>>>> number of people downloading files (and multiple files), I'll bet
they
>>>>>>have
>>>>>>> a direct connection backbone... but whatever... 10Mbit is good...
JUST
>>>as
>>>>>>> long as it isn't @Home. Everyone knows they blow arse...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>---
>>>>>>I pledge allegiance to the Mac of Apple Computer Incorporated, and to
>>>>>>the developers for which it stands, one platform, under Jobs,
>>>>>>indestructible, with creativity and multimedia for all.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>-Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>-Dan
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>
>
-Dan


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