memory reported less than installed

[Blaine Fleming]

Peter Goggin wrote:
> When you buy 1Gbyte of memory you get 1000 Megabytes. Some programs
> define a GByte of memory as 1024Mbytes. Thus these programs would show a
> shortfall of about 2%, i.e. 2 Gbytes (2000Mbytes) would show as 1.96
> Gbytes or thereabouts.
>   
When I buy 1GB of RAM I get 1024MB, not 1000MB.  Hard drives are base 
10, RAM is base 2.  This is also reflected by the BIOS reporting 1024MB.

--Blaine