Partitioning a disk

[Chris Torek]

In article <453 at shodha.dec.com> alan at shodha.dec.com writes:
>PMAX was the internal name used during development.  The
>PVAX (VAXstation 3100) was being developed at the same
>time, so it may have been the source of the name.  In
>general the intenal name shouldn't be used, but sometimes
>habits are hard to break.

Unfortunately, in general the name `PMAX' is the only way to convince
DEC salesdroids that you mean `*DEC*station 3100' and not `*VAX*station
3100'.

Giving two similarly-packaged machines the same number was a big mistake.
-- 
`They were supposed to be green.'
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