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From: jonathan@ukmug.uk.mugnet.org (Jonathan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Imperial vs Metric
Keywords: inches gallons electrical outlets
Message-ID: <9106011628@ukmug.uk.mugnet.org>
Date: 1 Jun 91 12:20:47 GMT
Organization: MINIX User Group UK (UKMUG)  -- MUGNET-UK --
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Andy Tannenbaum (ast@vu.cs.nl) wrote:
> People in the U.S. just assume that the whole world uses inches

All the best people do :-)

The English still do use inches, although our government seems bent on
signing over our sovereignty to the EEC.  A lot of us still work in
pounds and ounces, and would buy our petrol in gallons too if the multi-
national oil corporations hadn't taken a totally undemocratic unilateral
decision to relabel all the pumps in metric.

As for electrical outlets, well, look at the AIX definition of 'malloc',
or the varied flavours of 'mail' (mmdf, sendmail, smail etc).  Then
there are sockets, TC/IP, ftp and many more.