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
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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
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