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- Path: sparky!uunet!inmos!inmos.co.uk!gimli!roger
- From: roger@gimli.inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: T9000 status
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.081036.8621@inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: roger@gimli (Roger Shepherd)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
- References: <24973.9208171506@lion.inmos.co.uk> <66222@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:10:36 GMT
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- In article <66222@hydra.gatech.EDU>, henshaw@emperor.gatech.edu (Andy Henshaw) writes:
- |>
- |> I think that I am not atypical in thinking that this shortening
- |> of Texas Instruments' name sounds very weird to people here in the
- |> States. Generally, we refer to them as TI.
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- Ah! Around here TI (Tube INvestments) is the name of a company which makes
- all sorts of things to do with metal tubes. It causes great disappoint
- when reading the financial pages of the paper when there is a headline
- about ``Major new product from TI'' and it turns out to be a climbing frame
- or a bicycle.
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