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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:50:14 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        wilko@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl
Message-ID:  <20040218195014.GA82542@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200402180918.17580.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040215.152553.55627525.imp@bsdimp.com> <200402171605.22554.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040217.214954.70221117.imp@bsdimp.com> <200402180918.17580.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:18:17AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:49 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <200402171605.22554.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
> >
> >             John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > : > Funny, I've lived just about everywhere in the US (except Texas) and "a
> > : > couple" has always meant two.  "A few" would be 2 to 5, several would
> > : > be 4 or 5 to maybe a dozen, etc., all the way up to "buttload" which is
> > : > rougly "more than a man can carry."
> > : >
> > : > 2 or more seems to be what we really want here.  A parenthetical "X
> > : > floppies for i386 as of this writing" will help the reader to grasp the
> > : > scale at some ill-specified point in time.
> > :
> > : Actually, 3 floppies are used for i386 and 4 for pc98 right now.  If
> > : bsdlabel(8) on Alpha is ever fixed so that it makes bootable images
> > : again, then Alpha will use 3 floppies.
> >
> > A handful of floppies then.  Or a Fistful Of Floppies.  Nice ring to
> > it...
> 
> A "passle" of floppies.

How many floppies can one store in a bikeshed?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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