Why oh why do I associate SDI with Strategic Defense Initiative??

[glennPattonWork3]

Hi All, Being a child of the 80's I think SDI as Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars (Space lasers taking out commie nukes). I am bothered by this please tell me I'm not alone... :((

[k5054]

You are not alone. I'd have to google what else SDI could refer to.

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[Daniel Pfeffer]

k5054 wrote:

google what else SDI could refer to

Slum Dwellers International? Serial Digital Interface? State Disability Insurance? ...

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[Roger Wright]

You are definitely not alone; what else could SDI mean? Don't panic! And don't forget to take your towel...

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[Daniel Pfeffer]

Roger Wright wrote:

what else could SDI mean?

Software-Defined Infrastructure? Secure Digital Intercommunications? ...

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[glennPattonWork3]

Serial Digital Interface ?

[glennPattonWork3]

Is there a Hitchhiker refernce I have missed?

[Roger Wright]

Not that I know of, just that when dealing with space lasers, I think it's a good idea to keep a towel handy. You never know... :suss:

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[PIEBALDconsult]

That's what it is.

[jmaida]

Strategic Defense Initiative is correct answer

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[glennPattonWork3]

Not according to Trinamic! :-D

[jmaida]

I don't get it. Trinamic?

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[glennPattonWork3]

Sorry, a little contex the widget I was playing with that had the SDI bus which was the cause of the question was a Trinmaic stepper motor control board.

[Single Step Debugger]

For me SDI stands for Single Document Interface (the opposite of MDI). I blame it on my early days with Delphi.

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[TNCaver]

I associate SDI with the name of a group of small, local convenience stores (long since closed): Super Drive In.

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[Gary Wheeler]

I have a C++/MFC SDI application whose development started in 1999 and I'm still maintaining. It was never a candidate for MDI.

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[Bruce Patin]

What else does SDI mean? SDI was an excuse to hide all sorts of secret projects and apparently still is.

[markrlondon]

Yup, me too.