Re: EOF-7 meeting minutes

> > Unit for measuring amounts of data. Amounts to 1.048.576 bits. For
> > more information, see http://www.BITNET/ :-).
>
> I know this has been discussed countless times on the net... i
> think that one megabit of trasmissive data is 10^6 ... :) but
> the URL is nice!

Unfortunately I think Liman is right this time.  The term
explained was "Mbit", not "Mbit/s".  The former is for measuring
amounts of data, conventionally 2^20 bits, the latter is a unit
for measuring "transmission speed", conventionally 10^6 bits/s.

- Håvard