[X Newbies] Disk Utility/RESOLVED

[Alex]

On Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004, at 08:28 Canada/Eastern, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> [...] after racking my brain trying to figure out why they couldn't 
> find ANY files with "disk" in the name I ask her how she spelled it. 
> "D-I-S-C, just like on the CDs" she replied. [...]

A subtle and often ignored point: in Computerese, "disk" is a magnetic 
storage medium (e.g., hard disk), while "disc" is an optical storage 
medium (e.g., compact disc).

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