22 May
2014
22 May
'14
5:05 p.m.
On 05/22/2014 01:37 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I thhouhg the Professional Graphics board set was
called a PGC
officially. Maybe to reduce confusion with the alternative expansion of
the acronym (Pin Grid Array).
Could be--I'm too lazy to check. But the A in CGA was definitely an
"adapter". So I was sloppy. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
Mea maxima culpa.
As an aside, would a PATA "adapter" with a BIOS ROM be an "interface",
"adapter" or "controller"? After all, isn't the software that
does the
controlling?
In disk formats, I'll sometimes say MFM 80x2x18x512, for example. But
only when I'm trying to be precise.
--Chuck