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From: ferguson@maitai.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dennis Ferguson)
Subject: Re: shmoo plots
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 17:11:37 GMT

>Easy...a shmoo plot is just a graphical representation of some kind
>of circuit condition versus two input variables. [stuff deleted] 
>
>I think the name came from the old cartoon Li'l Abner...wasn't there
>a creature called a shmoo?  I could be wrong. [stuff deleted]

Gee... I was taught that a smho was the reciprocal of resistance or
what is formally called conductance.  Hence, the smho was ohms spelled 
backwards.  Several years back, the smho was abandoned for the internationally
accepted term "Siemans".  This was comparable to the abandoning of "cycles
per second" for "Hertz". 

Is there some joke here I'm not getting....

Dennis