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  Re: Bad Choices
 
When they first came up with SCSI, the originators of the standard (no, I don't remember who it was) tried to impress upon everyone else that SCSI should be pronounced "sexy"... it was the geeks (snorting derisively at a too- cute acronym, no doubt) (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Bad Choices
 
(...) Hunh? Oh wait, you said Apple/Mac groupies, so I get it now. Its scuzzy - deal with it. :) I'm sure Apple/Mac groupies could put their collective efforts into something more useful, like maybe encouraging Apple to come up with cooler new (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Programming & LEGO legal stuff
 
PASCAL is a pretty nice language to learn how to program, that is how I first really learned to program (ignoring BASIC hacking). The game part can be done, About 10 years ago, my term project in a pascal class was to write a Wheel of Fortune game (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Bad Choices
 
(...) Small Computer. It's just a carryover of the hard c (k) sound: skuzzy rather than suzy. I use "scummy" and "scurvy" and the people at work always know I'm refering to SCSI. Nothing like mking a bad choice worse. ;-) Bruce (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Bad Choices
 
(...) To look at them, most geeks do think scuzzy=sexy. eric (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Programming & LEGO legal stuff
 
Because I asked this in lugnet.loc.se, and Ander Isaksson (you know, the man behind BlockCAD) recommended Pascal. Jacob Sparre Andersen also recommended ADA, and I chose Pascal. I haven't started learning yet, so I still can change my choice of (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
 
(...) Depends what you're doing and how much you really care about performance. My friend Paul and I both have Linux systems that get backed up over the network by our Operations group. They're mostly identical systems, but Paul's is all IDE and (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Bad Choices
 
(...) You're not alone. (URL). My impression is that it _was_ the geeks who came up with 'scuzzy'. It's more amusing than 'sexy'. (Remember all the horrid advertizing surrounding computers with 386SX and 486SX processors? Urg. No need to encourage (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
 
Perhaps you are talking about a SCSI RAM drive ? this is a SCSI DVD RAM Recorder .....I have never heard of SCSI RAM as in SCSI accessed RAM Memory modules.. but I have seen SCSI DVD RAM drives ....They use thier own version of recording media .... (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
 
(...) Actually I never heard a thing like "SCSI RAM", but I'm not familiar with systems other than PCs, so it can be. In case you mean a SCSI subsystem for HDD, CD-ROM and such devices, You may have it easily, although it might be quite expensive (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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