> > Out of curiosity, why was the ramdisk device (rd) renamed to memory
> > disk (md)?
> 
> The hp300 port already has a real hardware disk device called rd.
> Apparently they (for some suitable value of "they") decided it was
> better to rename everybody's ramdisk driver than to rename the hp300's
> hpib disk driver.  (There may have been compatability reasons for
> wanting the hp300 disk driver to be called rd, I don't know.)
> 
The same are for the vax port also, which have MFM disks called rd??
in hardware.

-- Ragge