Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:41:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> 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: <17289.937766500@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:37:16 PDT." <199909191837.LAA55732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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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). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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