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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!rca
  3. From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony)
  4. Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov6.093614.20554@cs.brown.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
  7. Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
  8. References: <1992Nov3.220241.12669@access.usask.ca> <1992Nov4.203512.4772@dtint.uucp> <1992Nov5.005521.7041@u.washington.edu>
  9. Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:36:14 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Nov5.005521.7041@u.washington.edu> basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes:
  13. >nevin@dtint.dtint.com writes:
  14. >>> They must be in protracted debate over whether to call it the  
  15. >>"SuperUltraNitro"
  16. >>> or "UltraNitro" or some other utterly tasteless appelation.
  17. >>How about "TurboNitro"?
  18. >How about something that has nothing to do with automotive technology?
  19.  
  20. Well, then they should switch to aeronautics. How about TurboProp?
  21. The next generation could then be called Jet, closely followed by
  22. Afterburner...  :-)
  23.  
  24. Ronald
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  28. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
  29. in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
  30. unreasonable man."   G.B. Shaw   |  rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
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