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From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
Date: Wed Mar 17 11:51:20 1999

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>Considering the level of success that National Bureau of Standards had
>with conversion of the U.S. over to metric, just how effective do you
>think they would be at adoption of these BARNEY-BYTES?

Yes, indeed. Perhaps we'll see Rev. Jerry Fallwell declare the tibibyte
gay because it is represented by Tinkie-Winkie at IEEE conferences? In
fact, that's a good idea. Perhaps we'll be seeing dancing teletubbies on
our television screens showing off the new Pentium XII processor? But no.
Somehow, I envision Apple being 'innovative' once more and taking the
first step in the adoption of this standard. Imagine Steve Jobs coming on
stage hand-in-hand with Barney and declaring the new G4 workstation
'complete with 128 mebibytes of RAM'. As I said, it's not a bad idea,
except the names are just too ridiculous.

--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
Received on Wed Mar 17 1999 - 11:51:20 GMT