Rich Grise wrote:

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:36:31 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
John Fields wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Meat Plow wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

This allowed us to replace a discontinued SO-8 part.

Ugly soldering.

There's MORE solder on it than I've seen in some contemporary consumer
kit. I'd hardly call it ugly though.

Is a kluge pronounced 'kloog' or 'kludge' btw ?

'Klooj', with the double o's pronounced as they are in 'tool'.

Thank you. UK practice is 'kludge' both written and spoken.

Yeah, but in the UK, they misspell '****', which rhymes with 'bit',
as '****e', and apparently, it rhymes with 'white'.

Those Brits just don't know how to speak proper English. ;-)

Strictly speaking, '****e' is used only for emphasis in derogatory coments such
as 'that's a real piece of ****e'.

Graham