what cd download ? Jargon busting.

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Thu Nov 6 16:38:36 UTC 2003


At 10:02 11/6/2003, you wrote:
>I've been trying to figure out what ISO actually stands for - knowing that 
>it is an Image that's burnable - but whats the O?

The ".iso" suffix comes from the filesystem type, which is iso9660 
(standard CD-ROM data type) and of course in that case the i-s-o represents 
the "International Standards Organization" who created the iso9660 format.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com





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