http://www.gnu.org/software/gmp/manual/html_mono/gmp.html
Hans Aberg
haberg at math.su.se
Wed Oct 8 13:18:42 CEST 2008
On 8 Oct 2008, at 00:40, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Are you suggesting that Slowaris is not an appropriate name?
>
> If "Slowaris" is a derogatory term for Solaris, then yes, I would
> consider it inappropriate.
It is probably just a descriptive term, apparently well established:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowaris
>> Thanks to your error report, I now notice that we do use an
>> inappropriate name for Windoze; it is by accident called Windows!
>> This will be fixed in the next release.
>>
>
> Hmm. :)
By contrast, this is labeled as "satiric misspelling":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windoze
Hans
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