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drum adj, n.
Ancient techspeak term referring to 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 humor
and not a few straight-faced but utterly bogus `explanations'
getting foisted on newbies. See also "The Story of Mel" in Appendix A.
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