Physical analog systems are minimum phase. This has nothing to do with Willard Gibbs and everything to do with Hendrik Bode.
As physical systems are minimum phase as shown by Bode and many others, using a zero phase sinc(x)/x is pretty lame in a DSO. as it does not conform to physical reality. and a minimum phase sin(x)/x is no more complex. It's just a different set of coefficients.
You can make the sin(x)/x interpolator pure causal by applying a Hilbert transform. While this would be *highly* unusual in seismology (we tend to like symmetric wavelets and routinely zero phase data using impulse responses of the recording system) it does make good sense in electronics.
Gibbs has *nothing* to do with it. Gibbs did not describe "pre-ringing". What he showed was that the spike at the peak of a step was a mathematical consequence of the Fourier series. Or to put it differently, if you don't want overshoot you need to modify your step response spectrum.
The more I read comments about DSP from forum members for whom I have great respect, the less regard I have for the DSP training of EEs. I'd always assumed they knew more about DSP than geophysicists, But then, most EEs do a little DSP, whereas seismic processors do nothing else. And reflection seismic research scientists spend all their time inventing new DSP algorithms. In general the DSP for reflection seismology is so highly developed that no individual could master all of it.
FWIW the sin(x)/x interpolator is also called a "Whittaker" interpolator.
Those are the facts and nothing but the facts. How anyone can involve Heisenberg in this is completely beyond me. All the mathematics were proved long before I was born.
As a general reference, "Random Data" by Bendat & Piersol 4th ed is the best summary of the subject which was developed primarily by Wiener, Shannon, Nyquist and Whittaker in the 30's and 40's.