26 Jul
2005
26 Jul
'05
6:37 p.m.
Re:
>
> At 08:04 AM 7/24/2005, you wrote:
> >Curiosity for the day - is there any difference between the use of disk
> >and disc when describing floppy drives, hard drives etc.?
IIRC, the major IEEE magazines adopted a standard
of "disk" for magnetic media, "disc" for optical media
...IIRC, about 5 years ago I asked one of their senior
editors about magneto-optical :)
He said "disc", because for them the optical overrides
the magnetic part.
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