[Info-vax] MIPS vs. VUPS

[George Cornelius]

In article <d4a3ac-ns2.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> On 2015-08-15, George Cornelius <cornelius at eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>> In article <epnb9c-j6f1.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>,
>> Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>> On 2015-08-06, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think the plural of Itanium is Itaniacs :-)
>>> 
>>> What's the collective noun?
>>> 
>>> I'll suggest a (marketing) flop of Itanics.
>>
>> Megaflops.
> 
> -:)


I suppose by collective noun you meant "collection of".

Like

 a MIP of mainframes
 a VUP of VAXen
  and
 an MFLOP of Itanics

The M works in two ways but Marketing is the one I'll
go with here so as to not disturb any feathers that
might later need unruffling.
 
> -- 
> "I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and
>  the rest of the day taking it out."  -- Oscar Wilde