Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:18:17 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl Message-ID: <200402180918.17580.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040217.214954.70221117.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20040215.152553.55627525.imp@bsdimp.com> <200402171605.22554.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040217.214954.70221117.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:49 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200402171605.22554.jhb@FreeBSD.org> > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : > Funny, I've lived just about everywhere in the US (except Texas) and "a > : > couple" has always meant two. "A few" would be 2 to 5, several would > : > be 4 or 5 to maybe a dozen, etc., all the way up to "buttload" which is > : > rougly "more than a man can carry." > : > > : > 2 or more seems to be what we really want here. A parenthetical "X > : > floppies for i386 as of this writing" will help the reader to grasp the > : > scale at some ill-specified point in time. > : > : Actually, 3 floppies are used for i386 and 4 for pc98 right now. If > : bsdlabel(8) on Alpha is ever fixed so that it makes bootable images > : again, then Alpha will use 3 floppies. > > A handful of floppies then. Or a Fistful Of Floppies. Nice ring to > it... A "passle" of floppies. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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