WD External Disc Drive
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Tue Oct 27 13:57:10 UTC 2009
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:21:37 +1030, Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Further,
>
> If we look at some acronyms associated with optical media we
> have:
> CD -> Compact Disc
> DVD -> Digital Video Disc
> but:
> UDF -> Universal Disk Format (The file system frequently used on
> CDs and DVDs)
> So there is no consistency here!
Again, you're correct, there seems to be some preferred, but
not generally standardized use of "disk" and "disc". Maybe
we need "fdisc" someday. :-)
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