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Re: Bad Choices
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 26 May 2000 00:17:08 GMT
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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) that perpetrated the 'scuzzy' pronunciation.
In a not-completely-unrelated topic; I had to step in and tell our Lab admin
today that the 'serial' ZIP drive he couldn't get to work was actually a Mac
SCSI ZIP. The tip-off (I pointed out) was the little SCSI symbol on the cable
he was vainly insisting was a serial cable and on the drive itself.
-Cheese
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Martineau writes:
> I wonder if I can start an underground movement among Apple/Mac groupies,
> fanatics, etc... to change the _horrid_ pronunciation of SCSI (scuzzy) to
> something a little better, like SCSI (sexy).
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> When I first learned about the small computer systems interface, it seemed
> natural to add an 'e' between the 's' and 'c' rather than a 'u' between the
> 'c' and 's'
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> Is anyone else miffed at the choice the 'standard-bearers' made?
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> Maybe if we .geeks band together and unite to calling scuzzy sexy, it might
> be commonplace in a year....
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> Just IMnot-so-HO
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> --Electro--
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| (...) That would be Shugart (...) Actually it was spelled SASI and pronounced "sassy". It later became a non-company specified standard and was renamed SCSI. (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| I wonder if I can start an underground movement among Apple/Mac groupies, fanatics, etc... to change the _horrid_ pronunciation of SCSI (scuzzy) to something a little better, like SCSI (sexy). When I first learned about the small computer systems (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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