Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

Wayne.Brown
2001-02-01T23:07:02Z

To confuse things even more, I have a "Hewlett-Packard 9114 Disc Drive," which
is really a 720K 3.5-inch diskette drive.

Wayne

"Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man@crosswinds.net> on 01/31/2001 05:00:34 PM

To: "Jeremy M. Dolan" <jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org>
cc: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
(bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)

Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jeremy M. Dolan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:19:56 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > The thing that struck me most was the spelling of disc with a 'c'. As
> > an Englishman this is the correct spelling for me most of the time,
> > but I have come to accept "as a technical term" disk (as in American)
> > is the right name for these devices.
>
> Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile
> Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached.
>

Anymore, even I refer to everything as discs, I used to be hardcore in
establishing the difference between disks, discs, and diskettes. However,
it's really useless, given that nobody even understands "diskette" in the
general public when I say it, I wind up explaining it.

- Mike

===========================================================================
Michael B. Trausch fd0man@crosswinds.net
Avid Linux User since April, '96! AIM: ML100Smkr

Contactable via IRC (DALNet) or AIM as ML100Smkr
===========================================================================