International Electrotechnical Commission: the body that attempted to resolve the confusion surrounding the use of “MB” to mean either binary megabytes and decimal megabytes – depending on context – by their approval, in late 1998, of names and symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data processing and data transmission. The acceptance of the symbols – “Ki”, “Mi”, “Gi” etc. – by the PC industry has been somewhat disappointing.
