On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
In my world, anyway, nobody had heard of ATA drives until ATAPI came
along. This popularised the term ATA, and then Serial ATA came along
and plain old parallel IDE was renamed parallel ATA, PATA.
Similarly to how "DOUBLE Density"
bacame a name before "SINGLE Density" ("SINGLE" was only needed later, to
differentiate it).
Good point. Hadn't thought of that. Before my time!
And how "WORLD WAR TWO" was used as a name before
"WORLD WAR ONE" was ever used as a name ("The Great War" got renamed when it
was important to compare and differentiate it it from its successor).
_Way_ before my time.
Although sadly I very much fear that WW3 will be in my time. Indeed,
might be the end of it.
It may be a while. Or today. But, I don't expect to live that long. My
generation goes our entire lives, birth to death, in terror of it.
Planning for it began in August 1945, and "Duck And Cover" cowering in
terror of it, has been going on for 60+ years, with a peak during the
Cuban missile crisis.
We REALLY should have let Nikita Khrushchev go to Disneyland!
The origin of the internet is a giant elephant, and we are many blind
men, each only seeing individual small parts.
ONE of the [lesser?] incentives for developing the internet was so that
the IRS (Infernal Revenue Service) would not have collection of taxes
disrupted by nuclear annhilation. (Facebook and porn distribution were
only secondary motiviations for creating it)
