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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: What is a "CSD"?
- Message-ID: <hatton.716239610@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 19:26:50 GMT
- References: <09SEP92.14981240.0196@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <1992Sep11.093757.28797@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
-
- >In article <09SEP92.14981240.0196@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, HWHA@UNB.CA (HWHA000) writes:
- >>I've been reading this newsgroup for a couple of weeks now
- >>but I still haven't figured out what CSD means. What is the
- >>June (November?) CSD?
-
- >i'm beginning to think that CSD==Coming Some Day !
-
- Good one! :-)
-
- >actually its Corrective Service Diskette i think. also someone
- >has said that IBM are calling it something different from a
- >CSD anyway this time!
-
- Well, think about it - "corrective service" sounds a lot like what we
- already have, namely fixes for bugs. So, if you have the revised kernel,
- the revised vsvga.sys, and so on, then you already *have* the "CSD"!
- What's coming will also include *new* goodies - purportedly the 32-bit
- Graphics Rendering Engine, some 32-bit drivers for VGA, XGA, and, if we
- are howlingly lucky, SVGA for some chips, ET4000 rumoured to be among
- them thank-your-favourite-deity. And so on.
-
- So, with new items and functionality, corrective service doesn't really
- fit - so Service and Performance Pack (or was it the other way 'round)
- becomes the new name. But people haven't really had time to adjust fully
- to IBM-speak, and so having just learned "CSD" they aren't willing to
- give that up as the name for the upcoming release.
-
- Tom
-