17 Apr
2002
17 Apr
'02
11:29 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Allison 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?
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> 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.