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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:58:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, dan@math.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time for some new man pages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980929185523.11107M-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980929170415.A29583@nuxi.com>

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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> I'd really be interested in a survey about this change.  I'm willing to
> bet that to most a SCSI disk is simply that a *S*CSI *D*isk.  FreeBSD has
> now added yet one more incompatibility (or if you prefer, yet something
> different, aka NIH) to the Unix world.
> 
> What ever happened to the policy of least supprise?

I called it sd because that's what it seemed to be called on most other
systems. (POLA)

Apparently Justin disagrees. He's doing the code.

It would probably require a large core vote to change it..

personally I think it's a gratuitous change, but I've done worse myself.

I doubt that it would cause much long term  heartache.

julian


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