From: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: etymology of SATA PATA SATAPI PATAPI
Date: 21 May 2004 11:09:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085159352.3139.27.camel@patibmrh9> (raw)
People I met today guessed I may have coined the term PATA.
As a point of personal privilege, I cry innocent:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&s=pata
immediately finds a reference as old as:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=107048452605455
Date: 2003-12-03 20:44:46
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Intel ICH5
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Summary: ... Looks like a PATA controller, but with a few added,
non-standard SATA port controls.
...
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http://www.google.com/search?q=satapi
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=satapi
also have relevant hits, some dating as far back as August, 2003.
No relevant hits yet appear at:
http://www.google.com/search?q=satapi
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=patapi
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&s=patapi
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&s=satapi
I notice PATAPI has as many letters as PCMCIA = People Can't Memorise
Computer Industry Acronyms.
Pat LaVarre
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