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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP
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Subject: Re: SCSI pronunciation query
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 15:30:56 EDT
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>>I read that, as a rule, people in the Apple world tend to pronounce
>>SCSI as "sexy" while people in the IBM world say "scuzzy."  From
>>observation, it appears people in the AT&T world also say "scuzzy."
>
>    Some of my friends and I (who are basically members of the Apple
>world) pronounce it as "SKISS-ee." Does anyone else use this? I
>admit this is rather trivial (no flames, please). However, I find
>very little sex appeal in a peripheral inserface, and if it ever does
>manage to become a standard, it can't possibly be that scuzzy. :-)

Actually, this comes from SASI, or Shugart Associates System Interface, and
was pronounced "sassy."  Shugart then proposed it as a standard (ca 1981 or 82)
and ANSI then took it over.  However, ANSI couldn't let something out with a
specific Mfr's name on it, so they changed it to SCSI, for Small Computer
System Interface.  Never mind that it was so named inaccurately, it deals only
with peripherals.  At that time, the ANSI committee noted (but did not docu-
ment) that they considered the "sassy" pronunciation unchanged.

We at Tektronix implemented our own version of SASI in 1982-83 for the 411x
terminal family, but it was known internally as MSIB, for Mass Storage
Interface Bus.  The local joke at the time was that MSIB was still pronounced
"sassy!"

And as for the guy who assumes that simply because it's an adopted standard,
it can't be scuzzy, ahem.  Welcome to the real world.

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply.  The opinions expressed
                 above are mine alone, sorry for their being posted in crayon
                 but they won't let me have sharp things in here.)