> Could be--but I was pointed out that "straight eight" was an automotive > term familiar to the laity that pre-dated DEC by a goodly number of > years. We live in a world dominated by automobile marketing.
Some points to ponder: The term Straight-9 is basically never heard when referring to the PDP-9 and not a PDP-9/L. The term "Winchester disk" is another example of name coined after another deeply embedded cultural term having nothing to do with computing. -- Will
