Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:39:37 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: docs/38225: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM" Message-ID: <XFMail.20020729083937.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020729050409.J20453-100000@www.freebsdmall.com>
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On 29-Jul-2002 Chern Lee wrote: > Might I add, to confirm some of the earlier mention. > > Murray and I had decided to standardize on CDROM back in September of 2001 > or so. What does Sony call them? Hmm, doing some research: The "El Torito" boot standard for CD's uses CD-ROM. From http://www.cdpage.com/Compact_Disc_Books/yellowbook.html it seems apparent that Philips and Sony use "CD-ROM": If Red Book is the father of all CD formats, Yellow Book is the mother. Red Book is actually the basis for and an integral part of Yellow Book, which defines CD-ROM, or Compact Disc-Read Only Memory, announced by Philips and Sony in 1983. CD-ROM was envisioned as a way to allow digitized content including but not limited to audio to benefit from the capacity, durability, and economies of scale that were rapidly making compact disc audio a big success. Yellow Book is the disc specification that gave birth to all the variations on a CD theme that make CD formats so versatile and, equally, so confusing. Given that the paper that _defines_ what a CD-ROM looks like uses CD-ROM, I think that is pretty definitive. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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