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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New buzzword
Message-ID: <281@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 15:44:10 GMT
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In article <4197> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
}In article <5945@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
}>Over the weekend I had call to think of THE NEXT buzzword.
 
}I support the immediate drafting of the buzz-adjective "hemi"
}into the computer architecture/marketing lexicon.  After all,
}"hemi" has performed yeoman service over the years for the
}auto industry (particularly *performance* cars, nudge, nudge).
}And who knows more about marketing?
 
      Isn't someone (sgi?) already using "Turbo"?

      And I suppose we can look forward to:

	  DOHC              Double OverHead Computer  (a CISC no doubt :-)
	  Have you driven a MIPs lately?
	  Cray is the clockbeat of America.  (Can you order ScotchGuard on
					      the seats?)
          etc.. etc...

Well, we might as well adopt the automotive paradigm, after all it seems
computers already have a *model year*!

	  "Here's a lovely '89 DECstation owned by a little old lady
	  who only used it to play gnuchess on Sundays..."

Sign me,
"Carried away"