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Originally Posted by petercreasey
1024 is divisible by 16 and 1000 is not. (16 bits is key with hexadecimal)
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No, it's purely to do with RAM addressing originally, so called 1K RAM chips, powers of two on address lines, so 1024 bits per chip. Later 4 bit, then 8 bit chips. The storage, being power of two based, tended to double or quadruple on each iteration of chip design.
Nothing to do with hexadecimal, or even octal which used to be popular. Though obviously it's inherent that all the chip sizes are divisible by 16. It's to do with binary. There are 10 kinds of people in the world, the minority that understand binary and the rest.