[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[AEF]

On Feb 12, 7:00 am, Paul Sture <nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
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>  AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 11, 10:09 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
> > Koehler) wrote:
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> > > <13bcadfd-0102-4dca-98be-471859f09... at ia3g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, AEF
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> > > > So VAXes it is. VAXen is illogical. The term has no parallel in the
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> > >    Niether does the spelling of laugh.  Both are exceptions adapted by
> > >    the society that uses them.
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> > It's still illogical, and computers are logical. Therefore, it is
> > illogical to use an illogical term to describe a logical entity.
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> Disk or disc?
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> Paul Sture

disc - CD, frisbee (flying disc), phonograph record, DVD, videodisc,
optical disc (or disk), abbreviation for discount, disc brakes, Blu-
ray disc

disk - disk drive; image of a celestial body as visible in a
telescope, or in the case of the Sun or Moon, also in the naked eye,
and in the case of a star, which is something too small to be seen as
a normal disk, a diffraction disk (in naked eye or telescope); slipped
disk in the backbone

And there are also variant spellings of the same thing, as in Hanukkah
and Chanukah.

AEF