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From: rbrewer@reed.UUCP (Robert S Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 68882 pronunciation?
Message-ID: <10731@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 06:41:13 GMT
References: <AXLZrHy00VsII7BuIq@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: rbrewer@reed.UUCP (Robert S Brewer)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <AXLZrHy00VsII7BuIq@andrew.cmu.edu> bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) writes:
>How does one pronounce the name of the 68882 chip?  "Sixty-eight, eight
>eighty-two" is a little unwieldy.  I flip-flop between "six eight-star two" and
>"sixty eighty eighty eighty eighty ...(etc., until I'm tired)... two".  Any
>better suggestions?
>
>I don't envy the people who have to work with the damn things.
>
>                                 Bob Glickstein
>                          Information Technology Center
>                           Carnegie Mellon University
>                                 Pittsburgh, PA
>
>                               "What's in a name?"

	I had always used the latter of your two choices, but recently I have
taken to calling it the "six triple eight two" chip. I like it...

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