Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news1.tnib.de!feed.news.tnib.de!news.tnib.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Date: 25 May 2014 08:10:49 GMT Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net gfA9KCsRReKduB8TLN2Q8gm8qDMLEgDHQAMjPLTYabVCahxxip Cancel-Lock: sha1:/lzfNYXtmMOIE4wuTxo/NSTIqEI= User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3126 On Sun, 25 May 2014 08:19:18 +1000, 2ju wrote: > "Bob Eager" wrote in message > news:bucgt5Fmh2vU5@mid.individual.net... >> On Sun, 25 May 2014 06:39:31 +1000, 2ju wrote: >> >>> "Bob Eager" wrote in message >>> news:bubna0Fmh2vU4@mid.individual.net... >>>> On Sat, 24 May 2014 20:37:28 +1000, 2ju wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> "Stanley Daniel de Liver" wrote in message >>>>> news:op.xgcvqq1jo4et73@dell3100... >>>>>> On Sat, 24 May 2014 00:55:06 +0100, glen herrmannsfeldt >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> In alt.sys.pdp11 Dale R Worley >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (snip) >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The fortnight is little-used, but its meaning is clear if you >>>>>>>> look it up in the dictionary. The problem with the stone is that >>>>>>>> there are two versions: 14 lb. and 20 lb, and since it is not >>>>>>>> used at all in the US, there's no way for a USanian to find out >>>>>>>> which definition is the one used for weighing humans. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I remember when Canada sold gasoline (and probably other things) >>>>>>> in imperial gallons, which were 5/4 US gallons. (Or close to >>>>>>> that.) >>>>>>> >>>>>> We don't have gasoline in the Britain, just petroleum. >>>>> >>>>> Petrol, actually. >>>> >>>> Petroleum spirit is, I believe, the correct term. >>> >>> There is no such thing as a correct term with something like that. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_spirits >> >> Perhaps not; to a point I agree with you. However, it is the dominant >> term in the names of documents etc. associated with the UK regulations >> pertaining to the substance in question....! > > Sure, but that is just the rather quaint old fashioned terminology so > often seen in regulations. I'll leave you to believe that, then. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org