[Info-vax] MIPS vs. VUPS

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-08-15, George Cornelius <cornelius at eisner.decus.org> wrote:
> 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 meant "collective" noun as in 

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun>

"In linguistics, a collective noun is a word which refers to a
collection of things taken as a whole."

Less mundane examples being "a murder of crows" or a "parliament of
owls", and for Datatrieve fans "a peregrine of Wombats" :-)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names>

A "surfeit of skunks" sounds pretty appropriate...

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