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From: wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Frivolous standardization
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Date: 25 Oct 88 03:23:52 GMT
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(Especially considering the nature of this posting, I apologize if
anyone gets this more than once.  As if there weren't already enough
postings about a vaporware machine.)

We seem to have a naming problem.  Specifically, what is going to be the
casual name for the NeXT machine's optical media?

Thus far we have:
    1) magneto-optical drive, and other official or semi-official terms.
      These have the difficulty of being too long and technical for
      casual use, as demonstrated by the creation of:

    2) optifloppy,
      which has the advantage of being a single word; and

    3) floptical drive,
      which preserves the meter of the original terms.  The only problem
      with this term is that the obvious shortening, "flopty," may be
      a bit too close to the word "floppy" for easy use in conversation
      (either in print or speech).

So what's it going to be?  Option 1?  Option 2?  Option 3?  Flames for
frivolity?  I'll summarize whatever winds up in my mail (on this issue,
that is).

Oh my.  An entire wall of flames.



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David Wald                                              wald-david@yale.UUCP
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