"Wizard of OS" wrote on 2002-08-19 11:05 UTC: > I suppose Canada will be in 10 years completely metric and UK and Eire in 20 > years!
When will Germany go completely metric? At least the Personal Computer business there is still deeply contaminated by US FFU practice, in particular designation of display sizes and floppy disks. I even see occasionally references to 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" CD-ROMs (which are actually 120 mm and 80 mm large), even in reputable magazines such as c't. [To be fair, I don't know anybody who measures anything in Germany in FFU, but the system survives still in the informal names of product types, such as "17-Zoll Monitor" or "2-Zoll Wasserrohr", and I still see the most dreadful/ignorant "3.5-Zoll (8.89 cm) Floppy Disk" being advertised in Germany.] Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
