Bob Blick <piclist@mit.edu> wrote:

> Here in California we have Tall, Grande, and Venti. 
> Tall, of course, is the smallest.

    Yeah, that's true anywhere there's a Starbucks... Which is like
    saying it's true throughout the universe, I guess. 

    As with the names for USB speeds, there's history behind the
    Starbucks coffeecup-size names: 

    In the beginning, there were two sizes: Short and Tall.  When they
    introduced the larger 16-ounce cup, it was called Grande.  The
    progression -- Short, Tall, Grande -- wasn't hard to understand, but
    then it got a little confusing when they dropped the Short size and
    were left with only Tall and Grande (rather like USB's Full-speed
    and High-speed). 

    In order to avoid further confusion when they introduced the even
    larger 20-ounce cup, they decided not to use another comparative
    name and instead just called it Venti (Italian for "twenty"). 

    Which makes sense, except that in order to compensate for the volume
    of ice in cold drinks, the COLD version of the Venti cup is 24 ounces.

    -Andy

=== Andrew Warren - aiw@cypress.com
=== Principal Design Engineer
=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
=== (but open to offers)


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