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From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: the word "bitmap"
Message-ID: <607@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 18:36:49 GMT
References: <8568@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <7549@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <8901050417.AA16210@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, UK.
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In article <8901050417.AA16210@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
alain@dgp.toronto.edu (Alain Fournier) writes:
>That leaves us without a good word for multi-bit-maps.

	Thereby contradicting himself.

>							My modest proposal
>is "swatch".

	Sadly, "swatch" is already in use by the Swiss watch industry.
Similarly, my non-computerite friends think that a VAX is a (much
advertised in the UK) brand of vacuum cleaner [also a self-contradiction,
how could a vacuum be dirty?].

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk