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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>drum</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="drugged.html" title="drugged"/><link rel="next" href="drunk-mouse-syndrome.html" title="drunk mouse syndrome"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">drum</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="drugged.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drunk-mouse-syndrome.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="drum"/><dt xmlns="" id="drum"><b>drum</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media
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that were once state-of-the-art storage devices. Under some versions of
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BSD Unix the disk partition used for swapping is still called
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<tt class="filename">/dev/drum</tt>; this has led to considerable humor and not
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a few straight-faced but utterly bogus ‘explanations’ getting
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foisted on <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>s. See also “<span class="quote"> <a href="../story-of-mel.html" title="The Story of Mel">The Story of Mel'</a></span>” in Appendix
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A.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="drugged.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="drunk-mouse-syndrome.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">drugged </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> drunk mouse syndrome</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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