On Oct 13, 11:21, Don Maslin wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > Yes, some people did call this QD, but
> > it isn't a different density at all -- the misnomer comes from people
who
> > don't understand what the words mean. Your numbers for 180K, 360K,
etc,
>
> Pete, since the term QD or Quad Density dates back to at least the North
> Star Horizon, I would submit that it was not people who didn't
> understand but rather who chose to ignore the real meaning and to use
> the term as it was descriptive of the expanded disk capacity.
I remember the use, but it's still a misnomer, and I'm not altogether
convinced. Most non-N* people didn't call those disks QD, as far as I
remember.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 23:07:35 BST