From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
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From: Quinn Dunkan <quinn@retch.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:12:33 -0800
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> 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.