cvs commit: www/en index.xsl

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Feb 17 20:49:58 PST 2004


In message: <200402171605.22554.jhb at FreeBSD.org>
            John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > Funny, I've lived just about everywhere in the US (except Texas) and "a
: > couple" has always meant two.  "A few" would be 2 to 5, several would be 4
: > or 5 to maybe a dozen, etc., all the way up to "buttload" which is rougly
: > "more than a man can carry."
: >
: > 2 or more seems to be what we really want here.  A parenthetical "X
: > floppies for i386 as of this writing" will help the reader to grasp the
: > scale at some ill-specified point in time.
: 
: Actually, 3 floppies are used for i386 and 4 for pc98 right now.  If 
: bsdlabel(8) on Alpha is ever fixed so that it makes bootable images again, 
: then Alpha will use 3 floppies.

A handful of floppies then.  Or a Fistful Of Floppies.  Nice ring to
it...

Warner


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