mebibyte

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Etymology

From mebi- +‎ byte.

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mebibyte (plural mebibytes)

  1. (computing) Strictly, 220 (10242, or 1,048,576) bytes or 210 (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.
    • 2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 29:
      At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.

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