Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:00:40 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml Message-ID: <20040824200040.GI760@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <1093376861.725.76.camel@localhost> References: <20040824193308.92BAE5D04@ptavv.es.net> <1093376861.725.76.camel@localhost>
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--4LwthZj+AV2mq5CX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.08.24 12:47:41 -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:33, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > DOS simply is a disk based OS. (As opposed to earlier paper tape and > > magnetic tape based systems. > > Right...I was just trying to make the point (perhaps poorly) that "DOS" > doesn't necessarily refer to anything MS-DOS related. Well, while technically true, I doubt that would be confused about this... "New" users [1] will probably never have heard of any DOS other than MS-DOS (and "clones"). People who have heard of other operating systems named DOS will probably be wise enough to derive =66rom the context that we are refering to MS-DOS (and "clones")... :-). > Seen 'em, touched 'em, but never used 'em. I have, however, spent a > little time on IBM Model 029 card punches. Leftover cards (er, well, I > guess they're almost *all* leftover nowadays) make great bookmarks. :-) Hehe. [1] That would also include me :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --4LwthZj+AV2mq5CX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBK55nh9pcDSc1mlERAkExAJ4tIXWDFZcgOUmuQ4jM2dHYSWi3OgCfbxOi Xjd932IAKt6A25A4oz1cxss= =quXD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4LwthZj+AV2mq5CX--
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