drum

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drum

Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under BSD Unix the disk partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on newbies.

See also "The Story of Mel".

Last updated: 1994-12-22

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  drumfish, brake drum, metal drum, barrel, membranophone, tympan, cram, grind away, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone, beat, thrum