Listen you are confusing the units
The standard is not saying that computers should use a base 10 to manipulate information.
The standard say that BASE 2, you use "bi"
mebibyte
gibibyte
etc
computer dinamics did not change, the units use to represent the vallues is/was innacurate. Thus the correction.
"Labels" to represent x amount of data was define precisely in IEC 60027-2 (the revision) you can grab a copy online at ANSI and see whats in there.
[This message has been edited by wiZd0m (edited 01-08-2002).]