On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Allison wrote:
>
> > >> 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.
>
> 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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