Re: Utopia
Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Wed, 06 May 1998 19:09:21 -0400
Hara Ra wrote:
>
> Yak Wax:
>
> >
> > The definition of Utopia is a perfect political and social system.
> > Let s say a utopian world is impossible, for this to be true I need to
> > satisfy the following things:
>
> Wrong! "Utopia" means "No Place" (U - no, topia - place)
>
UTOPIA is the parallel byte interface specified by the ATM forum
to pass ATM cells between ATM devices within an ATM switch or
subscriber.
Conclusion 1: definitions are context-sensitive.
Conclusion 2: the electronics incustry is capable of finding
a non-standard usage for every word in the dictionary.