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Article #21274Re: Filesystem vs file system
From: erc... Sam Wilson
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 13:13
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 13:13
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cfla...@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters,208,7209,homephone) writes: > In article 7309@ukw.uucp, lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes: > > ... > >It just did a bit of research (this is SunOS 4.1.2): > > : > > : > >This is 81% for "file system", 19% for "filesystem". > > > >What does *your* vendor say? > > Better than allowing vendors to set terminology standards: check what POSIX > standard uses. IEEE 1003.1 sanctifies the term "file system", with a space. But isn't the function of a standards body to make its standards just that tiny, little bit different from what went before? Examples: Ethernet and IEEE 802.3, Unix and POSIX etc etc. [For the serious - the rationale is that then the original developers don't have a commercial lead whenthe standard is published.] Sam
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!ercm20 From: erc...@castle.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Filesystem vs file system Message-ID: <20760@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 29 Apr 92 13:13:36 GMT References: <1992Apr27.204245.5868@nrao.edu> Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit