My opinion is that the entire proposal is laughable. KiloBytes have been 1024 bytes in this context for too long for any dictate from "on high" to have any practical influence. The horse is gone- close the barn door if you like. Don't these people have something better to do? (Like promote adoption of their existing standards, mayhap?) Has anyone here EVER been unsure from the context whether a Mega- or a Kilo-something was 1024 or 1000 multipliers? The only case I can think of is (probably deliberate) specsmanship by hard disk vendors, where (unlike DRAM) capacities are not naturally binary progressions. And besides, can you pronounce MiByte ("me-bee-byte"???) without laughing? Maybe-bytes? That's the RAM where Windoze puts my data files, right? Sigh. ------------ Barry King, KA1NLH Engineering Manager NRG Systems "Measuring the Wind's Energy" Hinesburg, Vermont, USA barry@nrgsystems.com "The witty saying has been deleted due to limited EPROM space"