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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCASI or IDE disk?
Date: 13 Aug 1994 09:36:31 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <32fnofINN8bn@bonnie.sax.de> j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>>>-> SCASI Adapter Card (ADAPTEC 1542CF),
>>It's *SCSI*! Repeat after me: S - C - S - I
>>It stands for Small Computer Systems Interface
>Heyhey! Don't shout... `SCSI' preferres to be pronounced like `Scuzzy',
>and remember the guy comes from Norway, so `SCASI' might cover his
>pronunciation very well.
I read somewhere (this was probably written with tongue well in cheek)
that hardened advocates of SCSI prefer to pronounce it as "SEXY" ;-)
Geoff.
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