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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
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:  <199909191837.LAA55732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <17189.937766061@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Sep 19, 1999 08:34:21 pm"

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> In message <199909191830.LAA55684@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Grimes" writes
> :
> >> On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Brian Feldman wrote:
> >> 
> >> > green       1999/09/19 11:04:55 PDT
> >> > 
> >> >   Modified files:
> >> >     usr.bin/systat       vmstat.c 
> >> >   Log:
> >> >   "Disks" is more correct than "Disks" could be.
> >> 
> >> That seconds "Disks" should be "Discs" ;)
> >
> >In an international world ``Discs'' is the more correct form.
> 
> 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 :-).


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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