Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!cpsc6a!rtech!amdahl!littauer From: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Simple query (prefixing) Message-ID: <19566@amdahl.amdahl.com> Date: 11 Dec 87 23:56:35 GMT References: <3633@ames.arpa> Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20 In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? One of our developers (coz, you read this group?) had to look into this recently. He came up with "tera" followed by "pera" followed by "exa". Alas, I have no direct reference to cite; if needed I could probably chase it down. This is *NOT* an announcement. Tom -- UUCP: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,ames,uunet,cbosgd}!amdahl!littauer DDD: (408) 737-5056 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 330, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 I'll tell you when I'm giving you the party line. The rest of the time it's my very own ravings (accept no substitutes).