18 Apr
2002
18 Apr
'02
12:52 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Zuse gets my vote. Words like Gigazuse (GZ) sound really cool.
Are you pronouncing it correctly, i.e. "tsoo-zeh"? Or in the Greek
"Zeus"
fashion?
I'm a fluent German speaker. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
> How about
calling it a Babbage?
An idea!
Well, I'd rather go for Zuse. Not only because
he is
German(*), but rather because there is still no basic
or derivated SI unit starting with Z, so Z would give
It's sufficiently obscure and I like it. Lessee a 400milliZuse
system... Yep rolls on the tongue nicely and sounds oh
so technical.