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From: dave@celerity.uucp (Dave Smith)
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Subject: Batter superlatives (was Re: Crays aren't cheap)
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Date: 10 Jun 89 21:53:19 GMT
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In article <3934@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>
>The only thing I ask:
>Just stop using the the prefix "super" like in supercomputer, superscalar,
>superconductor, superman, (and watch out for hyper and ultra, too. 8).
>

I agree with Eugene.  I am suggesting to our marketing department that all
the "super" prefixes being batted around be replaced with "bat" and "ultra"
with "fish".

Coming soon, the FPS Model 500 minibatcomputer with batconducting batscalar 
co-processor and FishNet.  I like the sound of that!

(In case you have to be told, FPS rarely takes my opinions seriously and
can by no means be held responsible for them)
David L. Smith
FPS Computing, San Diego
ucsd!celerity!dave
"Repent, Harlequin!," said the TickTock Man