Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:14:18 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM an acryonym? Message-ID: <49027.1180970058@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:49:17 %2B0200." <4664266D.8090704@fluffles.net>
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In message <4664266D.8090704@fluffles.net>, Fluffles writes: >Hello list, > >We all know GEOM, but where GEOM got it's name from is not very well >documented. I found two sources claiming it to be an acronym for >"Geometry" and would like to verify this. The sources are: > >http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/Geom/ >http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/GEOM > >Both leave something to be desired: the first source is from it's author >but does not indicate if GEOM is truely derived from Geometry. It is. Truly. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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