From: Mark Davis (mark.edward.davis@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 15:19:05 CDT
I prefer the Aisle, Bdellium, Ctenoid, Djinn, ... alphabet ;-)
Mark
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:29, John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On May 19, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>
>> I knew someone who would read the hexadecimal F as "fox", I assume part of
>> a set, and he didn't seem to feel it was unique or idiosyncratic, so I guess
>> there's a community out there which uses those. (I guess you could use
>> Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc. from the NATO phonetic alphabet or one of its
>> older versions. That's probably where the "Fox" is from...).
>>
>
> It almost is. But it's from the WW2-era "Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy
> Fox...." "Alpha Bravo...." was little known to civilians when IBM introduced
> the System/360 (which didn't introduce hexadecimal, but first made it
> important), and was positively despised by those few older veterans who had
> heard of it.
>
>
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