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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:45:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <200107141645.f6EGjVx01800@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200107140057.f6E0vuJ99336@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:57:56 -0700 (PDT), Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> said:

>     O'Reilly has standardized on 'CD-ROM' as have several other
>   publishers, however 'CDROM' outnumbers 'CD-ROM' 2 to 1 in our

The official Sony/Philips notation has always been `CD-DA' for audio
and `CD-ROM' for data.  (Not to mention `CD-XA' and a few other even
more obscure acronyms.)  Since the expiration of the patents it's not
clear whether they should still be considered authoritative.  (While
the patents were alive, all licensees were required to conform.)

-GAWollman


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