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- From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu)
- Subject: Re: MiniDiscs -- What Are They?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.064326.26054@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:43:26 GMT
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- In article <LANCER.92Dec20180218@lizardo.WPI.EDU> lancer@lizardo.WPI.EDU (Stephe Lewis Foskett) writes:
- >>>>>> "amc" == Adam Costello <amc@wucs1.wustl.edu> writes:
- >amc> P.S. Does anyone know why magnetic disks are spelled with a "k",
- >amc> but optical discs are spelled with a "c"?
- >
- >The general convention is that a disc is read-only, while a disk can
- >be written and read... At least that's the last I heard...
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- Actually from what I hear a 'disk' is square (floppy disk) while a
- 'disc' is round (CD-ROM disc).
-
- =Fractalman
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