From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 23 23:14:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA21617 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA21610 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA11409; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:10:12 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199604240610.IAA11409@grumble.grondar.za> To: HMG coA reductase cc: Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/console Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 08:10:11 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HMG coA reductase wrote: > What's a "stiffy" drive? A 3 1/5 inch floppy. So called because of the stiff case. In South Africa, to call this a {mini|micro|*}floppy would get lots of people yelling at you that its a "stiffy", not a "floppy". Crazy. > > > Robin> As an "operator" you can access the stiffy drive > > > > > > The WHAT?!? I think this might have implications with the > > > communications decency act ... > > > > Of course. You won't get any decent communications with a stiffy (or > > with a floppy, for that matter). Yup - Typical South African Usage - The two types of floppy actually have different names - and these are enforced by "common usage". M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key