Re: The Atlantic Ocean (was Re: You think you had it rough)

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From: da... Anthony A. Datri
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 11:26

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>Spellings often depend on where a technology comes from.  Thus we have computer
>disks and compact discs both happily being sold from the same stereo stores.

Yet the BSD quota stuff uses "disc".  The document even mentions that this
is because the implementor was from Australia.


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