From: Quinn Dunkan <quinn@retch.ugcs.caltech.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:12:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020125031238.B166F403D@retch.ugcs.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:26:55 EST." <20020125022657.73C2D19A9F@mail.cse.psu.edu>
> I could have sworn the coin is called a 'nickel'.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nickle \Nic"kle\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also {nicker
pecker}.
Well, that's probably not right. How about:
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
nickle
/ni'kl/ ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A
{nibble} + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's
{GI 1600} (the {Intellivision} games processor), a chip with
16 bit-wide {RAM} but 10 bit-wide {ROM}. See also {deckle}.
Yaffle sounds like a good name for a language though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 2:26 rob pike
2002-01-25 3:12 ` Mike Haertel
2002-01-25 10:02 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25 3:12 ` Quinn Dunkan [this message]
2002-01-25 10:01 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25 10:01 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-01-25 12:32 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28 11:12 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29 2:00 okamoto
2002-01-29 6:14 ` skipt
2002-01-29 11:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-27 11:55 erik quanstrom
2002-01-27 14:43 ` Matt H
2002-01-28 11:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 17:16 George Michaelson
2002-01-25 12:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-28 4:45 ` YAMANASHI Takeshi
2002-01-28 16:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 3:20 David Gordon Hogan
2002-01-25 12:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-25 17:01 ` Dave Lukes
2002-01-25 2:28 rob pike
2002-01-25 2:23 Russ Cox
2002-01-25 10:02 ` ozan s yigit
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