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Subject:Re: Terrobyte From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:22:00 -0600
What is a terrobyte?
It's a Terabyte. Tera-, from the Greek TERAS -- meaning monster -- is a prefix
meaning trillion. A terabyte is the next major step from gigabyte. I'm sure the
marketing folks have already reduced it to a (mere) trillion bytes, but it's
more properly 2^40 bytes, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. (My apologies to the non-
US audience for using "," as a separator rather than "." but the query *did*
come from the US.)
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 124
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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