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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Frivolous standardization
Message-ID: <1241@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 05:28:27 GMT
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in article <41210@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) says:
> 
> We seem to have a naming problem.  Specifically, what is going to be the
> casual name for the NeXT machine's optical media?

I vote for the term "WALDO" for the new magneto-optical device
technology.  The word is an anagram (I think that's what them
'versity types don call them thin's an'way ;-) for the description
of the technology.

W.A.L.D.O. ==> Write-After-Landing-Delay Optics or
		Write-After-Long-Delay-Only (;-) for the sarcastic.

		Warm Areas Loose Data Often,  (I'll bet that Direct
			sunlight will heat the media as well as
			the laser ever could) and the phrase "data
			disruption due to overheating" will have a
			totally new scope.

How do I keep my data safe?  I use ice. ;-)

Rob.