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From: eeproks@pyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Pronunciation Guide Please
Message-ID: <4146@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 17:03:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: pyr.4146
Posted: Wed Sep 30 17:03:06 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Oct-87 07:20:00 EDT
References: <43700021@uicsrd> <165@snark.UUCP> <793@sugar.UUCP> <8666@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: eeproks@pyr.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Summary: silly...

In article <8666@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> ...I usually say "System five" ...
>
>Some of us say "system vee", also.  You don't think there will ever be
>a system six, do you?
>-- 
>"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry


Do you also say "System eye eye eye" instead of "System three" (System III)?


BTW, There is now a Version 8 Unix, I don't find System VI (or System IX, as
AT&T seems to to be going in multiples of three) to be an outlandish idea at 
all.

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