On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Gary Thorpe wrote:

>  --- Ben Harris <bjh21@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > This is a trivial issue, but it'll irritate me forever if I don't It's
> > not so much the inaccuracy that bothers me as the fact that someone
> > was clearly trying to be clever in naming the device and _got it
> > wrong_.
>
> What bother me is that the person who "tried to be clever" asked this
> list what an appropriate name would be and got back 'atppc'.

When I wrote "clearly", I should really have written "apparently".  The
actual mechanism by which the name was reached isn't really relevant; it's
the _impression_ that the name gives (and largely the impression it gives
to me) that I care about.

> I think pcppc was suggested but the overall response was that atppc was
> better for whatever reason.

Google can't find any reference to "pcppc" in a relevant context, but this
probably means nothing.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@NetBSD.org>
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