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Comment Re:Idiotic obsession with... (Score 1) 81

The advantage of using ancient languages - Greek in this case, BTW, not Latin - is that it allows a common vocabulary for use among speakers of many different mother tongues. Just as "petabyte" is founded on Greek "pente" ("five"), "yottabyte" is founded on the Greek "okto" ("eight"); so the next iteration would most usefully be founded on Greek "ennea" ("nine").

Comment History revised (Score 2) 427

This doesn’t accord with my memories. I joined ICL (the product of earlier mergers) in 1972 and as a programmer worked with three women on the team. Later, at a publishing company, the chief programmer was female, as were two senior systems analysts. I don’t recall any animosity or other bad feeling towards any of the women I’ve worked with. As for minicomputers, their design really didn’t fit the corporate processing requirement; though by the end of the 60s ICL had developed a successful small 24-bit mainframe comparable to (say) the PDP-11 in processing power, though arguably with the wrong form factor for laboratory use. I do wonder whether a US issue is being projected onto the UK here.

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