On 2018-06-18, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> 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?
I was wondering the same thing...
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