Re: What's a Corvus

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From: Mark Mandel
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 19:17

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>>My brother-in-law recently bought a Corvus Machine.  
>
>Goodness, it's been a while since I've heard that name.  It makes me wonder--
>was the name inspired by the Venus Equilateral stories? :-)

It's Latin for 'crow' (the bird).  The symbol on Corvus disk drives
seems to be an approximation of the constellation Corvus.
-- 

	-- Mark Mandel          (InterNet: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com)

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From: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel)
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Subject: Re: What's a Corvus
Summary: It's a crow
Keywords: Venus Equilateral
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Date: 5 Jan 90 19:17:28 GMT
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