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    Re: Bad Choices —Matthew Wilkins
   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 —Tom Napolitano
   (...) 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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