Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:46:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: green@FreeBSD.org (Brian F. Feldman), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c Message-ID: <199909191846.LAA55776@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <17289.937766500@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Sep 19, 1999 08:41:40 pm"
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> In message <199909191837.LAA55732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Grimes" writes > : > > >> Or as IBM did many years ago "rotating platter mass storage device" :-) > > > >I thought there international work for Disc was ``Direct Access Storage > >Device'' abbreviated as ``DASD'', pronounced as in DazzDee :-). > > I don't think that got used over here around '90 or so. There were > also various conflicing terminologies, mostly one per on product line > (series/1 vs 3x vs 3[67]0 etc etc). DASD was post 370 terminology, started about the time of the 3082/84 series so 1990 would be about right for when IBM started to use it. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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