>> Can anyone find a me definitive reference as to whether one should
>> abbreviate bits as 'B' and bytes as 'b'   or  vice versa?
> 
> I'm afraid I don't have the gift for spotting references that many others
> have, but I can say that B is usually byte and b is usually bit. At least,
> whereever I've seen.

You can look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

This and everything else I have in my mind agrees with Mike. For example,
when talking about transmission speeds, you usually see kbps, Mbps (as in
100 Mbps Fast Ethernet speed) -- where M means 10^6 and b means bit.

> My little rant is that bunk about "one gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes"
> which means that hard drives never have as much space as advertised.

Ever since the time (as in transmission) and space (as in storage) domains
got into contact in computing, there's that problem... :)

Gerhard
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