[geeks] Swapping Sparc boxes...
    Kurt Mosiejczuk 
    kurt at csh.rit.edu
       
    Sat Dec 20 03:25:10 CST 2003
    
    
  
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, William Enestvedt wrote:
> Kurt wrote:
> > > i can see why u instead of l for lun, for typographical reasons.
> > And those would be?  Seriously, I want to know...
>    Because a lower-case "ell" and a numeral-one often look alike, and there
> will *ahem* often be ones in device names.
>    Or were you yanking my chain?
No, I wasn't yanking.  I didn't remember that.  I tend to use fonts that
tend to differentiate well the difference between a '1' and an 'l'.  That's
a good point though.
--Kurt
    
    
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