From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 6 7:20: 9 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from bremen.shuttle.de (bremen.shuttle.de [194.95.249.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A63837B404; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from bremen.shuttle.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bremen.shuttle.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B618B17D27; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:19:55 +0100 (CET) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bremen.shuttle.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/LOCALMTA) with UUCP id g06FJtHx027482; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:19:55 +0100 Received: (from schweikh@localhost) by hal9000.schweikhardt.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g06EL4t07816; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:21:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from schweikh) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:21:04 +0100 From: Jens Schweikhardt To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c Message-ID: <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:50:16AM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI, # # The symbol for `second' is `s'. `S' is `siemens', the unit of # conductivity. When the Greek letter mu is not available, the prefix # `micro-' is symbolized `mc'. # # The symbol for `hertz' is `Hz'. `hz' is meaningless. # There's even an easily remembered rule to capitalization of units (in Physics): if the unit is named after a person, it's capitalized, else in lower case. So we have capitalized Hertz, Volts, Faradays, Webers, Ohms, Siemens, Amperes, Ångströms, Coulombs, Watts, Newtons, Joules, Kelvins, etc and lowercased seconds, meters, parsecs, barns, ergs, etc. Information technology is a different beast, however. You can't tell without context whether b is bits or bytes. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message