keith@imagen.UUCP (Keith Rich) (11/10/88)
I like the name DCD meaning digital compact disc.
dpz@dorm.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) (11/10/88)
In article <2015@imagen.UUCP> keith@imagen.UUCP (Keith Rich) writes: > I like the name DCD meaning digital compact disc. I think we should call it Clyde. Or maybe a "discus" (anyone try one of them out as a Frisbee yet?). Ah - I know, the Generally Rewritable Optical Secondary Storage device: GROSS or, the Rewritable Optical Disk - ROD or, Yet Another WORM, NeXT? - YAWN I think I'll stop now. :-) Yours for a more interesting world.... David -- David P. Zimmerman, the Dorm Networking Pilot Project, the UUCP Project, etc dpz@dorm.rutgers.edu rutgers!dpz dpzimmerman@zodiac.bitnet
crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (11/10/88)
Some NeXT personnel (from both sales and engineering) are using the term OD (oh dee) as an abbreviation for optical disk, at least in conversation. Aside: Watch what you say when in a room with a cube -- NextBug is real. Gary