Hi, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > what does MO stand for? tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > I'd guess "magneto-optical". It would match the term "superfloppy" in man mkdosfs. (Larger, more heavy, even less reliable than floppy disks.) Possibly some of the MO genes survived in DVD-RAM. E.g. the glossy rectangles sprinkled over the writable surface or the cartridges around early DVD-RAM media. Have a nice day :) Thomas