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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
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Subject: Re: 2 rumors/anecdotes (not computers :-)
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 14:06:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 21 14:06:09 1986
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> 
> My chem prof told our class (a couple of years ago) that the international
> phsyicists union (the counterpart of IUPAC) had voted to do away with the
> traditional names for all the elements.
> 
> 		Mike Sellers 
> 		{..}!tektronix!tekecs!mikes
> 
Unfortunately, electronic logic designers are still struggling against
some conspiracy to replace our easy-to-read symbols for
OR, AND, NOR, NAND etc. gates with square boxes with little
characters in them.  You may have seen them; they also
substitute bird-beaks for little balls to negate the signal.
These symbols even made it into the hallowed pages of QST magazine
for a few months.  SOme of the new Texas Instruments catalogs
use these, some don't; I carefully mark which ones use the "UGLY"
(Unreadable Gratuitous Logic Yuck) symbols and leave them alone.
	mike k