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Subject: Re: Re: SCSI pronunciation query
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 11:46:11 EDT
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In article <687@tekig4.UUCP> Brian Diehm writes :
>
> 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.
> 

At least the didn't adopt the name Peripheral Subsystem Standard Interface,
it wouldn't be to tough to come up for a pronounciation of PSSI.

--Chuck
P.S. I call it 'scuzzy' 'cuz it's slow. Give me IPI anytime.
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