> What does it mean to "address memory in powers of two" ? There are certainly machines with non-power-of-two memory quantities; 96 GiB is common for example.
I challenge you to show me any SKU from any memory manufacturer that has a power of 10 capacity. Or a CPU whose address space is a power of 10. This is an unavoidable artefact of using a binary address bus.
> The metric prefixes based on powers of 10 have been around since the 1790s.
I challenge you to show me any SKU from any memory manufacturer that has a power of 10 capacity. Or a CPU whose address space is a power of 10. This is an unavoidable artefact of using a binary address bus.
> The metric prefixes based on powers of 10 have been around since the 1790s.
And Babylonians used power of 60, what gives?