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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: It's "gigabyte", not "gegabyte" (geg me with a spoon....)
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 08:41:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 08:41:01 1984
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>>  <AND it is pronounced Guy - guh - byte, *not* Gig - a - byte.>

no! no! no! It *has* to be pronounced "gig - a - byte" so that
it's consistant with the name for a certain high-frequency
sine wave, the
		  gig - a - wig - gle
		

	(do I really need a :-) here? )
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