[A83] Re: NimbusOS

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[A83] Re: NimbusOS


Oh come on people... Don't tell me you don't know the various notations.
People generally use 83 to generalize the group of TI-83, TI-83+, and
TI-83+SE.  Now that just sucks to type out everytime.  When we want to make
sure people know we're talking about a specific calc when talking about
hardware differences, we say regular 83 or 83-.  83- is just a very quick
way of writing stuff.  This is just a fricking mailing list, not formal
documentation for a program.  I see no reason to feak out about shorthand.

Brandon Sterner

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Dial" <scott@scottdial.com>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: [A83] Re: NimbusOS


>
> The name of the calculator is NOT jargon. It is a title to a product
> which has already been set in precedent as the TI-83, whether you like
> it or not. You are butchering the name of it. If you think it is jargon,
> then you are mistaken. Stop trying to defend your nomenclature and just
> say what you really want to, deep down in your heart: "I don't care what
> you think; I will do what I want." But for the rest of the world, we are
> going to call it just as it was titled years ago -- long before you
> titled it.
>
> --
> Scott Dial
> scott@scottdial.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy Pardey
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:58 PM
> To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: [A83] Re: NimbusOS
>
>
>
> How did any language evolve? I presume you lecture at people when they
> say
> "Aren't you going" (example taken from jargon lexicon,
> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ ). The name for the TI-83 circa 1996 (I
> would say '96, but that is slang, *GASP!!!*)
> was made before the + nomiculture was devised. If TI was smart, they
> would
> have called the 83+ (I hope that isn't TOO incorrect for your mental
> parser)
> the 83.5 or even the 84, but they called it a somewhat bad name, so us
> nerds
> have to fix that. It may not be the exact term, but neither is any
> jargon.
> Hackers have theirs, http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ , we have ours.
>
> Jimmy Pardey
>
> >
> >But I still don't see why its such a big deal - to anyone.
> >- - Joe
> >
> >joe@joepnet.com
> >
> > >
> > > Except that it is incorrect.  If you want to use your own
> nomenclature
> >for
> > > everything, then that's fine.  But don't expect to be able to
> accurately
> > > communicate with anyone.
>
>
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