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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TiB (and the related) didn't get named until recently, and I think only Linux uses those abbreviations — and not universally — windows still says kB, mB etc, while using the binary equivalents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"recently", they are the standard for almost 25 years now.