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drum
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n. Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media that
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were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under some versions of BSD Unix
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the disk partition used for swapping is still called /dev/drum ; this has
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led to considerable humor and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus
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explanations getting foisted on newbie s. See also The Story of Mel' in
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Appendix A.
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