Wayne Brown wrote:
>
> There's been a discussion on the Linux kernel developer's mailing list today
> about whether those round thingies on which we store data should be called
> "disks" or "discs."  I've always used "disc" when referring to HP equipment and
> "disk" for any other company's stuff.  However, upon checking HP's web pages,
> all the references I see to storage (including MPE/iX storage) use the "disk"
> spelling.  Does anybody know when HP stopped using the "disc" spelling for their
> products?

As best as I can remember, HP referred to anything that they manufactured
or OEMed as "discs", at least until they got into the PC market when the
inevitable floppy "disk" came on the scene, and led itself to evolving
to a "hard disk".  But still everything coming from the old DMD in Boise
still referred to "discs".

They referred to anything in the 9000 world as "disks" and are only
fairly recently starting to refer to 3000 things as "disks".

But perhaps someone has a more definitive answer, I'm just guessing :-)

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>