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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!


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