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Should MOSNUM be changed? [[User:Shreevatsa|Shreevatsa]] ([[User talk:Shreevatsa|talk]]) 22:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
::Thank you Shreevatsa! Additional I would like to point out that [[SATA-IO]] uses Gb/s in their specifications "SATA 1.5Gb/s", "SATA 3Gb/s", "SATA 6Gb/s" and have an extra webpage recommending this usage for product names. I think to remember that in the 1980s I already saw B and b. [[User:TechControl|TechControl]] ([[User talk:TechControl|talk]]) 22:53, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
:::My memory throughout my recorded brain history is that '''b''' is a bit, '''B''' is a byte. I'm thinking here of 300bps modems and 3MB (yes, really, three-megabyte) fixed disk drives. Especially in the context of data ''rates'', bit/sec or bit/s is rare in my Western-biased viewpoint. "bps" is common for bit-per-second throughput, And kb (or Kb) is common for bit counts. However, for computer-architecture terminology, '''bit''' is more common: the 8086 CPU used an 8-bit instruction set, the 80286 was 16-bit; the PC-AT introduced a 32-bit I/O bus; &c. (Forgive my erroneous examples). I'd say that when ''bit'' is used as a standalone term, it's '''bit''', when used in conjunction with other terms, it's '''b'''. However, I've not read all those standards linked above. [[User:Franamax|Franamax]] ([[User talk:Franamax|talk]]) 05:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
::::Insteasd of "term" it should be "unit symbol". Then: 16-'''bit''' - here it is a word. 1G'''b'''/s - here it is a symbol. If used with other unit symbols it should be '''b'''. [[User:TechControl|TechControl]] ([[User talk:TechControl|talk]]) 08:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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