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 <hr width="100%" size="2"><a name="differfromsmartsuite"></a><b>How does smartmontools
 differ from smartsuite?<br>
-</b>This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell
+</b>The smartsuite code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell
 at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the <a
  href="http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu">Storage Systems Research Center</a>), Jack
 Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz. <br>
 <b><br>
-           </b>Smartmontools differs from smartsuite only in that it supports
+           </b>Smartmontools was derived directly from smartsuite .  It differs
+from smartsuite in that it supports
 the ATA/ATAPI-5 standard.   So for example <tt>smartctl</tt> from smartsuite
 has no facility  for printing  the S.M.A.R.T. self-test logs, and doesn't
 print timestamp information  in the most  usable  way.   The  <tt>smartctl</tt>