cvs commit: www/en index.xsl

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 18 06:36:39 PST 2004


On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:49 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...

A "passle" of floppies.

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