>> Thread + Ripper was a clever play on words: anything that had plenty of threads, the hardware was designed to ‘rip’ through the workload. > Tangent, but is

>> Thread + Ripper was a clever play on words: anything that had plenty of threads, the hardware was designed to ‘rip’ through the workload. > Tangent, but is this really a play on words? And if so, what is the other meaning here? Perhaps the OP was thinking of a seam ripper? Which, to be fair, does rip threads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_ripper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_ripper