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From: tbrakitz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Triantaphyllos Byron Rakitzis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Frivolous standardization
Message-ID: <4127@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 15:12:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: phoenix.4127
Reply-To: tbrakitz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Triantaphyllos Byron Rakitzis)
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In article <4124@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
>Ben-
>  Magneto-optical drive? Sounds like something out of Trek...also, a 3.5
>disk is in a square thingy too, and looks as much like a disk as the
>optical thingummy (I presume...never seen one.) But how about calling it
>an optimag disk? or even lasermag...or opnetic...or magtical...or even
>such things as WMRM!(write many..) or CMCD! (Computer Media Compact
>Disk) or CD-MMS (CD Mass media storage!) or any number of other
>things... :-)!  How about WARM? Write And Read Many? or COLD? Computer
>Optical Laser Disk? or NODS? Next Optical Data Storage? Or NUTS, for
>NeXT's Unusual Type of Storage! or JOKE-Jobs' Optical Kilobyte Engine,
>or more...flames to dev/null, please. Not to offend any NeXT
>worshippers, I just love inserting a little humor anywhere I can!
>					JBZimmerman!
>
>||   ||acob Zimmerman!+> <zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> INTERNET 

Hey, JBZ, I think you missed the next most obvious definition: the 
recursive one!

		DUD: Damn Useless DUD.





Byron Rakitzis.


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