17 Mar
1999
17 Mar
'99
11:51 a.m.
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Considering the level of success that National Bureau
of Standards had
with conversion of the U.S. over to metric, just how effective do you
think they would be at adoption of these BARNEY-BYTES?
Yes, indeed. Perhaps we'll see Rev. Jerry Fallwell declare the tibibyte
gay because it is represented by Tinkie-Winkie at IEEE conferences? In
fact, that's a good idea. Perhaps we'll be seeing dancing teletubbies on
our television screens showing off the new Pentium XII processor? But no.
Somehow, I envision Apple being 'innovative' once more and taking the
first step in the adoption of this standard. Imagine Steve Jobs coming on
stage hand-in-hand with Barney and declaring the new G4 workstation
'complete with 128 mebibytes of RAM'. As I said, it's not a bad idea,
except the names are just too ridiculous.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)