[linux-audio-user] usb-audio compatibe ATA devices

Hans Fugal hans at fugal.net
Fri Jun 2 12:45:28 EDT 2006


On Fri,  2 Jun 2006 at 12:38 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I think, but could be wrong, ATA is overloaded in phone speak scope
> > where it means something like "a phone".
> > 
> 
> Arrrgh, what genius decided to overload a really common acronym like
> this?

Alas acronym overloading happens all the time. In this case, the voip
ATA is a noun, and the disk ATA is an adjective so they rarely get
confused. 

-- 
Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
 
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the 
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
    -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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