cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2006.08.12 16:36:27 +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> keramida    2006-08-12 16:36:26 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD doc repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml 
>   Log:
>   Fix an English syntax buglet and s/DOS/&msdos;/

<pedantic mode>Well, actually DOS is fine since that's a more general
term covering several "Operating systems" (if you can call DOS an OS
:) ).  DOS isn't a trademark (AFAIK), but since MS-DOS is a trademark
you are generally not allowed to bind it with another word using a
hyphen (I can't recall MS's requirement, but that's very common).  So,
it should preferably be "DOS-derived" or "&msdos; derived".
Personally I have no great need to advertise more than needed for MS,
which is why I left all instances of DOS as DOS when I did the
original trademark sweep.</>

> |  	<note>
> |  	  <para>Note that device numbers in &os; start from zero and not
> | -	    one (like they do, for instance in DOS-derived systems).
> | -	    This means that what DOS-based systems
> | +	    one (like they do, for instance in &msdos;-derived systems).
> | +	    This means that what &msdos;-based systems
> |  	    call <quote>COM1</quote> is
> |  	    usually <filename>/dev/cuad0</filename> in &os;.</para>
> |  	</note>

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Simon L. Nielsen