On Monday 18 June 2018 11:45:45 Joe Pfeiffer 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?
Its this list, Joe. Anything as long as there is a provable effect, is fair game here, and has been for a goodly number of years. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
