Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> This biggest single thing wrong with any of those old scsi interfaces is
>> the bus's 5 volt isolation diode, the designer speced a shotkey(sp)
>> diode, and some damned bean counter saw the price diff and changed it to
>
> Is this a case of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology> ?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_H._Schottky

I'm missing why the claim that management changed the spec on a diode
from Schottky to conventional would be folk etymology?  Or why Gene
being unsure of his spelling would?  What does any of this have to do
with etymology, folk or genuine?
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