Original sentence: A new term that designates precisely and unambiguously the effective useable unit of information is kilooctet (exactly 1,000 octets), whose standard symbol is ko using the SI prefix; a related unit is the kibioctet whose symbol is Kio (1,024 octets) using binary prefixes.However, these terms see very little use as of end of 2005.The common usage varies according to the context:.The definitions used by the "kibibyte" faction are:.The entrenched usage is that the capitalized prefix K is used to distinguish this quantity from the SI prefix k.This confusion of the SI prefix kilo- (the multiplication by 1000 prefix) got carried away from the slang of computer professionals into the mainstream lexicon by marketing people, creating a lot of semantics problems.This quantity is expressed unambiguously as a kibibyte (KiB), and that name is recommended by some standards organizations.Which of the conventions should be used remains a major case of a holy war.for RAM, 1KB is nearly always 1024 bytes.for actual filesystem usage, 1KB is nearly always 1024 bytes.for physical disks, 1KB is always 1000 bytes, however:.when measuring network bandwidth, the usage wildly varies
Edited sentence: Some suggested that the capitalized prefix K should be used to distinguish this quantity from the SI prefix k.The preferred term that designates precisely and unambiguously the effective useable unit of information is kilooctet (exactly 1,000 octets), whose standard symbol is ko using the SI prefix; a related unit is the kibioctet whose symbol is Kio (1,024 octets) using binary prefixes.This misuse of the SI prefix kilo- (the multiplication by 1000 prefix) got carried away from the slang of computer professionals into the mainstream lexicon by marketing people, creating a lot of semantics problems.This quantity is expressed unambiguously as a kibibyte (KiB), and that name is recommended by most standards organizations