In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/10/2005
at 10:15 AM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I don't know what they called it, but if they called it something
>like sexagisimal then they were way off base (pun intended).
Well, as I recall it was an ugly machine, so ugly nomenclature is
appropriate.
>IBM violated the unwritten rule of thumb, when coining new words,
>that says a new word composed of multiple rootwords from another
>language should have all those different rootwords coming from the
>same language. Hexa is the English spelling of the Greek root
>meaning ten,
ITYM six; at least, a hexagon has six sides.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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