On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:20:59 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: >Veteran, yes. But as you know, the set of aquired acronyms depends much upon >environment. I once had a meeting (fresh from university) with some IBM >engineers on the subject of the introduction of the first RS/6000 models in >.nl. I still feel the sense of alienation, not knowing what a DASD was. I was >guessing it was some very special storage device, but in the end it just meant >"direct access storage device": just a disk. > >Maybe this wil trigger an EOG (end of grumpiness :-) > > -Otto
Heh, it reminds me of when I was teaching for IBM and we had an entire class of outsiders. The course notes (which the students had in front of them) referred to the DASD. They all looked puzzled and one asked me what it was. My reflex answer was: "DAS D thing that spins very fast and the data comes off or on." The devil made me do it! 8-)) Rod/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
