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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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In article <p.kerr-0801971408560001@news.auckland.ac.nz>,
p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr) writes:
> 
> The unit "mho" was in wide use in the North American electronics industry
> during the 1940's thru to '60s. It is rarely seen nowadays having been
> mostly replaced by the siemen.

Really?  Do you think siemens is the plural of siemen?
