Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard
From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New buzzword
Message-ID: <483@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 18:36:09 GMT
References: <5945@eos.UUCP> <4197@brazos.Rice.edu>
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory
Lines: 21

In article <4197@brazos.Rice.edu> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
* I support the immediate drafting of the buzz-adjective "hemi"
* . . .
-
And how many of us are old enough to remember that the colloquial use of
hemi-whozis came from the days of "muscle" cars with "hemi[spherical]-head"
engines?
-
Aside from which, simply as an arbitrary prefix, the French[?] fashion-
marketing term equivalent of "hemi" is "demi".  Whichfrom derive such things
as the "demi-bra", which is designed to display more that what's really
there, or at least to make a maximal display.  Which leads us into the
wonderful world of computer-marketing. . .
-
* . . .
* sign me
* "Embarrassed"
-
You should be!
-
p.s.  Who is "Tera"?