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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:33:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
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:  <199909200233.TAA57089@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990920100725.T55065@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 20, 1999 10:07:25 am"

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> On Sunday, 19 September 1999 at 11:30:51 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Where do you get that from?

I can't seem to find the article, but I believe it was a ``Devil's Advocate''
column.  Stan went on ad infitium about disc vs disk and even noted that
``computer disk'' was really a sick usage.



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


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