Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:24:55 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Manuel Gebele" <forensixs@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD DAQ Card Facility [DCF] Message-ID: <863a5etcyg.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20091020123819.30560@gmx.net> (Manuel Gebele's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:38:19 %2B0200") References: <20091020123819.30560@gmx.net>
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"Manuel Gebele" <forensixs@gmx.de> writes: > The acronym stands for DAQ (Data AcQuisition) Card Facility [...] If > you take a look at my site on sourceforge you should know why that > acronym. But I'm flexible, so maybe there is a better name for that. First, when you answer a question on a mailing list, it is customary to use your MUA's "reply" function and to quote the question. Otherwise, there is nothing to tie the answer to the question, and nobody will understand anything, except possibly the person who asked the question in the first place. It is also customary to answer once, not twice. That being taken care of - the reason I asked is that to me (and to many other time boffins and NTP fundamentalists), DCF is a longwave radio station in Frankfurt which is commonly used as an external reference for NTP servers. I would have just called it DAQ, which as you know is an established abbreviation for "Data Acquisition". The "card" part is meaningless; FreeBSD runs on plenty of hardware with integrated DAQ facilities, such as the Soekris, or pretty much anything built around a MIPS or ARM or (soon) AVR32 microcontroller. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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