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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  4 Jan 2013 21:21:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom
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> On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:36:06 EST erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > > This matches my understanding. Recall that IDE was essentially
> > > ST-506 with all the analog bits done on the drive itself
> > > (hence the name Integrated Drive Electronics).
> >
> > just because it once was, so it shall always be?  somehow
> > i think the world has moved on.
>
> My only point was that there is no need to throw away history
> and redefine commonly understood terms -- that only increases
> confusion. New revisions of the ATA spec should use new terms
> If old ones are found wanting but not redefine them.

unfortunately, they have been redefined for us.  ATA means
a command set.  IDE is a programming interface.  if that
has changed in the last 25 years, it is not i who changed the
definitions.

- erik