🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <36...@cc.usu.edu> SL...@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) writes:
>In article <18...@haddock.ima.isc.com>, t...@haddock.ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum) writes:
[...]
>For example, I came across this while I was figuring out what the PRO 350
>hard disk driver was doing so that I could slap an ST-251 in my pro:
>
>	The DW handler is formally designated the 
>	Martin B. Gentry Commemorative Handler
>	in recognition of their mutual reduction
>	of excessive avoirdupois
>
>And no I've not looked up 'avoirdupois' so that I can figure out what
>it means.

Well, to me, "avoirdupois" is the name of a system of weights and measures,
specifically, the one with ounces, pounds, stones, etc. in it. It still
doesn't make much sense (unless the programmers were on a diet, perhaps. But
*real* programmers never get fat enough to make this necessary...)

-- david elworthy

(P.S. I have some doubt that my postings make it to the US. Perhaps someone
could send me an email if it gets there. Actually, to avoid a million replies,
maybe one of the people referenced in this posting would do it.)