On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:17 PM Deborah Scherrer <
dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu> wrote:

> It is indeed Mount Z-eye-nu.   (I used to be its President. ;-)   )
>

Excellent! That's how I'd always heard it. Glad to know it's right.

Ed is living in the Walnut Creek area.  He has indeed retired and he and
> his wife do indeed do a lot of sailing.
>

Great!

Thanks for the somewhat authoritative answer :)

Warner


> Deborah
>
> On 7/18/21 1:44 PM, Norman Wilson wrote:
> > Unlike most here, I always pronounced Mt Xinu with an
> > eye, not an eee.  I don't know where I got that, though.
> >
> > I did know Ed Gould via USENIX and DECUS, but that doesn't
> > make my pronunciation correct.
> >
> > As an aside, anyone know where Ed is these days or how he's
> > doing?  I last saw him at a USENIX conference, probably in
> > San Jose in 2013 but I'm not sure.  He showed up just for the
> > reception; he'd retired, and had cut away most of his famous
> > beard because he was spending a lot of time sailing and it
> > got in the way.
> >
> > Norman Wilson
> > Toronto ON
>