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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.sys.ibm.rs6000
Message-ID: <537@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 01:45:40 GMT
References: <5661@brazos.Rice.edu-> <18149@rpp386.cactus.org> <4543@pegasus.ATT.COM> <18161@rpp386.cactus.org>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <18161@rpp386.cactus.org-> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
->In article <4543@pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
->>Also, according to either PC WEEK or INFOWORLD, "R.S." is a common
->>abbreviation in Australia for "rat feces".  (Okay, "feces" doesn't
->>start with an "s"; I cleaned it up a little, okay?  See the problem?-)
->
->Well, I saw a reference today to a "System/6000".  I predict that
->we will soon see a transition away from the original "RS/6000" to
->something less controversial.

During the IMB presentation to a group I was in last month, I jokingly asked one
of the reps I knew about the similarity to the Radio Shack name.  He said they
were always told to reference it as a "System/6000".

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Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill
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