Apple is just regurgitating what others have also said in the past.
People just make this stuff up as they go. Basically, a “DISK” refers to
magnetic storage of data, and “DISC” refers to optical storage of data,
and “DISC” also refers to magnetic and optical data storage on a HP3000,
even TAPE has a DISC format, like file code 2501. Maybe there was some
British influence within the original design of the HP3000.
Here is a snippet from yahoo answers:
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.
--
Mike.
On 04/24/2013 09:36 AM, Mark Ranft wrote:
> If you really think this is a big deal we do have the option to rate the Apple page. It is currently rated 4 stars with 5254 responses. Perhaps collectively we could lower the rating. I have already expressed my vote.
>
> I honestly do recall the 'disc' nomenclature being attributed to CD-type media. I always felt wrong with HP calling it DISC in the configuration.
>
> Mark Ranft
> Pro 3K
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> Been involved in IT since 1976. We used the terms Disc and Disk interchangeably as long as I have been around and that’s well before cd's and dvd's were around. I guess Apple now makes the rules?
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> Umm, I beg to differ.
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> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2300
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> -Craig
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