In article <[email protected]>,
Grzegorz Ja? kiewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am supprised noone wanted to maintain devfs. Maybe because people
>didn't want to go to devfs only.
It's because disk was spelled with a 'c' (disc).
Mike.
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>Grzegorz JaÅ kiewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>I am supprised noone wanted to maintain devfs. Maybe because people
>>didn't want to go to devfs only.
>>
>>
>
>It's because disk was spelled with a 'c' (disc).
>
>
That suppose to be a joke ?
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On Gwe, 2004-09-03 at 16:18, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
> >It's because disk was spelled with a 'c' (disc).
> That suppose to be a joke ?
The international joke symbol (8-)) is only mandatory in en_US locales.
Alan Cox wrote:
>On Gwe, 2004-09-03 at 16:18, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>
>
>>>It's because disk was spelled with a 'c' (disc).
>>>
>>>
>>That suppose to be a joke ?
>>
>>
>
>The international joke symbol (8-)) is only mandatory in en_US locales.
>
>
>
Ok, Planty of times I did asked Brits and Americans if there's any
difference. Neither did say that either disc or disk is more correct.
And I am using both all the time, noone has any objections ( I live in
UK for 2.5years so far ). So.... me is confused :-0
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> Ok, Planty of times I did asked Brits and Americans if there's any
> difference. Neither did say that either disc or disk is more correct.
>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_or_disc
Disk or Disc?
The divergence in spelling is due in part to the way in which
the words originated. Disk came into the English language in
the mid-17th century, and was modelled on words such as whisk;
disc arose some time later, and was based on the original Latin
root discus. In the 19th century, disc became the conventional
spelling for audio recordings made on a flat plate, such as
the gramophone record; this usage gave rise to the modern term
disc jockey. Early BBC technicians differentiated between disks
(in-house transcription records) and discs (the colloquial term
for commercial gramophone records, or what the BBC dubbed CGRs).
By the 20th century, the c-spelling was more popular in
British English, while the k-spelling was preferred in American
English. In the 1940s, when the American company IBM pioneered
the first hard disk storage devices, the k-spelling was used. In
1979 the European company Philips, along with Sony, developed the
compact disc medium; here, the c-spelling was chosen, possibly
because of the predominating British spelling, or because the
compact disc was seen as a successor to the analogue disc record.
Whatever their heritage, in computer jargon today it is common
for the k-spelling to refer mainly to magnetic storage devices,
while the c-spelling is customary for optical media such as the
compact disc and similar technologies. Even in the computing
field, however, the terms are used inconsistently; software
documentation often uses the k-spelling exclusively.
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