HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Terminal intrinsics
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:26:15 GMT


The video input was used by some versions of the VS11 graphics unit, which 
could then overlay the graphics on the VT100 text. In fact part of the
VS11 was called the 'Keyboard Interface' and consisted of a VT100
motherboard and PSU in a metal case. That linked a standard VT100 keyboar
dto the CPU's console port.
 There was a DEC terminal called the VT105. That was a VT100 with an extra
boardd giving VT55 style graphics (1 point in each column - great for
mathematical functions, not for much else). I think that gave the GPO
option instyalled flag. 
 Basically there were 3 option connectors on the VT100 motherboard. One
was a pin header used for the AVO - which certainly existed. There was a
16 (I think - may be 18) pin DIL socket (like an IC holder) which carried
the character data, ad some strobes. The graphics otion connected here.
There there was a wierd edge connector where the pins were designed to
short between the 2 sides if there was no PCB in it . That allowed you to
intercept the RS232 lines, and some others. 
-tony 'PDP11 Hacker' Duell
ard@siva.bris.ac.uk
From: alanf@eng.tridom.com (Alan Fleming)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long...
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:56:28 GMT
Reply-To: alanf@eng.tridom.com (Alan Fleming)
Organization: AT&T Tridom, Engineering

In article <3970@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>, aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
 
> Aki,;  the proud owner of _NO_ wrist watch.
>
Here here.  Seems like most of the computer folks I know don't own watches.  If
someone asks the time, we all race to open the xclock icon.  

Think Peace.
-- Alan (alanf@eng.tridom.com)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Looking for Steven K. Roberts' internet address
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 03:17:19 GMT

> I saw a video tape of a Phil Donahue interview of a very interesting
> gentleman named Steven K. Roberts, who, among other endeavors, travels
> around the country on an amazingly equipped bicycle.

I saw part of that broadcast this morning -- the first time I've watched
anything on Donahue in years!  When I got to work I mentioned it to the
person next to me, and he handed me a magazine article on Roberts.  The
article is in the April 1992 issue of QST, a magazine for radio hams, on
pages 25-30.

Naturally, it gives Robert's radio call sign (N4RVE), but no email address.
It also says:

#  If you're interested in obtaining technical information about Steve's
#  projects, the best way to begin is by writing to Nomadic Research Labs,
#  PO Box 2185, El Segundo, CA 90245.  A one-year, six-issue subscription to
#  [the magazine published by Roberts, _The_Journal_of_High-Tech_]_Nomadness_
#  is $15, and [his book] _Computing_Across_America_ is $11.95 (plus 8.25%
#  sales tax for California residents).
#
#  If you subscribe to the GENIE computer network, check out the NOMAD
#  area--there's about a megabyte of information...
-- 
Mark Brader			"You can't [compare] computer memory and recall
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 with human memory and recall.  It's comparing
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com	 apples and bicycles."		-- Ed Knowles

This article is in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: fetrow@biostat.washington.edu (David Fetrow)
Subject: Re: Cloned computers
Organization: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Univ. of Wash.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:07:20 GMT

 Nobody mentioned (yet) the PDP-10 clones like the Foonly and System Concepts
machines.

-- 
 - dave fetrow-					fetrow@biostat.washington.edu

   "A few areas of engineering remain "black arts": acoustics, LF antenna
    design, and high performance UNIX I/O."  -Dave Taber
From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: IBM vs. world terminology (was: What does dd stand for?)
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:31:32 GMT
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol

In article <1992Jul27.071236.8036@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>Why is it that MVS terminology is so different from the rest of the
>world? Look at a few examples:
>
>disk		DASD

Far as that particular one goes, the official IBM line is that it's
because DASD might not be disk -- could be drum, could be 'datacell',
could be anything else you can direct access -- and that DASD is the
more general term, and anyhow the users aren't generally supposed to
care about the difference.

The more cynical among us believe it's because it allows them to charge
more for it.  If the (probably non-computer-wizard) purchasing manager
knew it was only 'disk', he'd ask embarrassing questions like 'why does
'disk' cost 3 times as much if you buy it for an IBM as it does if you
buy it for anything else?'

-- 
Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
 P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!uknet!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Computers killing people? (WAS Re: 9 track data storage???)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:19:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.210113.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> zcookbruc@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.165150.14686@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>> In article <1992Jul29.140116.26213@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) writes:
>>>
>>>Falling VAX kills 20.
>>>
>>>I live in hope.
>>>
>>>Peter
>> 
>> I would prefer:
>> 
>> Falling VAX kills 11.
>> 
>> cjl
>
>Nah:
>
>Falling VAX kills 370
>
>...BRU

Nah:

Falling VAX kills 780

(I guess they hate their parents)

cjl
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Unix Roots of DOS?
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:16:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul21.111634.23030
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Jul21.092942.3945@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>a very thorough discussion about how the different (MS|DR)-DOS - Version
>deal with all the memory there may or may not be on a system, what drivers
>they use etc.
>
>That reminds me of a few definitions I some time ago, in an article:
>
>Expanded Memory: Memory over 1 MB which is not Extended Memory

This is wrong.  Expanded memory is LIM 4.0 memory, or at least a subset of
it.  Actual implementation merely requires calling a driver to get passed
a small window into the larger space.  The calling program has no rights
as to the expectations of implementation.  Known implementations include
using 4 16K frames in the UMA to access an indefinitely large space that
might be independently available as extended memory.  Or the memory might
not be otherwise available, and is actually off the memory bus generally.
This is often dones as "above-board" memory and is the usual way for 8088
or 8086 class machines.  The memory is never within the memory space of
the 1 meg of the machine except for the frames.  There is also a version that
uses disk space and at least 64K of real memory.  In theory, UMA could be
combined with disk space to make a larger LIM memory.  Caching could even
be done if someone cared enough.

>Extended Memory: Memory over 1 MB which is not Expanded Memory

Again wrong.  Extended memory is all memory over 1 MB.  There is a
standard called XMS which allows for the HMA in the first 64K-16 and then
the rest can be allocated in a more orderly way, but there are programs that
don't adhere to these standards as well, since it's fairly new.  DR DOS 5
didn't use it, but XMS 2.0 is part of both DR DOS 6 and MS DOS 5.

>Extended Expanded Memory: Memory over 1 MB which is neither Expanded Memory
>or Extended Memory
>

A copout that need not exist in light of the proper definition of the first
two.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing Unix names
Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:38:31 GMT

dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
>iisakkil@lesti.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila) writes:
>>Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:

>>>     A while back there was a thread discussing how to pronounce
>>>".cshrc".

>>I'd be happy to know how to type it. The day I manage to type .chrcs
>>(s*it!) without any errors, I'll consume generous amounts of alcoholic
>>beverages.

>But the real question is, what the **** does the 'rc' _stand_ for?!

I always assumed it stood for 'resource'
-- 
The Upholder of Truth		  	    I am not only ready to
Upholder@uiuc.edu (BSD/ASCII mail)          retract this, but also
jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail)    deny I said anything.  =)
wi.4173@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anon. mail)   This is *NOT* CCSO's opinion.
From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: DECtape (was: Worst tape drives)
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:29:08 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

In article <13283@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu
(Douglas W. Jones,201H) writes:

>He couldn't get the tape to read (surprise) even after he ran it forward
>and backward a few times to get the folds and kinks out of the tape, so
>he used his finger to press the tape against the heads.

     I remember seeing an operator in a Univac shop, pressing tape
against the head of an old Uniservo VI C (that's pronounced Six See)
to get it to read.

     Actually, when shops switched from the VI C to newer drives,
they often had to throw away a lot of tapes.  The edges of the tapes
had become wrinkled, but the old drives put enough tension on them
that they'd stretch out flat as they passed over the heads.  The
newer (kinder, gentler?) drives couldn't read them.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside-down.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing Unix names
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:44:12 GMT

In article <wcsjc.712380066@cunews> wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca (John Coughlin) writes:
>In <1992Jul29.010902.23494@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>
>>Well, .bashrc is much easier.
>
>Is that what a Unix programmer uses to say nasty things about the Roman
>Catholic Church ?
>
>8-)  8-)

No, it's for Unix Royal Crown cola haters.

cjl (me and my rc)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What does UNIX mean?
From: cwes1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Clare West)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:30:45 GMT
Organization: Dept of CompSci, U of Auckland

magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>In article <14548@umd5.umd.edu>, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) 
>writes:
>> 
>> You think THAT's bad?  There's some psychology (?) book out there somewhere
>> in use by some colleges that claims that Unix is a word processor.
>
>And if you think that's bad, what about this one? I saw it in a

[example deleted]

And if you think that's bad then....(Actually I think that's worse
than my example)

In a PC magazine (One of those glossy IBM-PC-Clone things full of ads)
there was an article about Unix, it claimed (I'm paraphrasing this
from a faulty memory) that:

  Unix was originally designed to be a single user version of Multics

I guess that they at least knew that Unix was an operating system.

-- 
Oh, why didn't I listen when they said "Never do a   |  cwes1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz 
 masters and try to have a life at the same time"?   |  clare west
                 BigSis to Chris, Eric and Kristiina
                    Official Welcomer of the RFA
From: Tony Lezard <tony@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Unix Roots of DOS?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 10:31:17 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul25.144803.25174@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> 9125113g@lux.latrobe
>>
>>   The shortest possible program for the IBM is one byte long, [...]
>
> [Says that size on disk is determined by cluster size of 512 bytes
>  or more]
>
>Just because there is a byte count in the file doesn't make it take any
>less time to load into memory or take up any less space when in a normal
>executable form.  (When archived, it will take up one byte though.)

Or less if compressed. :-)

--
Tony Lezard IS tony@mantis.co.uk OR tony%mantis.co.uk@uknet.ac.uk
OR EVEN arl10@phx.cam.ac.uk if all else fails. Great! Kept my .sig down to two
lines!
From: jelson@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Jeremy Elson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been hacking too long...
Keywords: workstation, hacking, risks
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:02:49 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD

In article <1992Jul23.152757.1506@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> gudjm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (D John McKenna) writes:
>hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker) writes:
>Just out of curiosity... out of all of you hackers who wear a digital
>watch, how many have it in 24 hour mode?

*laugh* I just bought a new digital watch a few weeks ago and decided to
keep it in 24-hour mode for precisely that reason (i.e. computer clocks
use 24-hr mode).

My 2 bits.

-je

-- 
Jeremy Elson
jelson@server.cs.jhu.edu (Internet) / jelson@jhuvms (Bitnet)
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: 9 track data storage???????????????
Date: 22 Jul 92 05:41:26 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <jcmorris.711729630@mwunix>, jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
> On a DECsystem-10 I used to be acquainted with we had a pair of 9-track 
> tape drives which were used to exchange data with the IBM systems.  I don't
> recall the DEC nomenclature for them (TU40??), but in real life they were
> STC tape drives for an IBM system (including both the drives and the
> associated control units -- functionally identical to IBM 3420's).  A
> special DEC interface (DX10??) converted Massbus signals into an IBM
> selector channel which was then connected to the STC controller.

  I had this odd impression that the TU72 was actually an IBM 2420/3420. I
could be wrong, though.

  Did you ever wonder why DEC changed the TU78 to the TU79? Well, if you
look at the door of a TU79 you'll see 3 almost-square rectangular depress-
ions. Think about sticking decals that say things like "280" in there and
you'll get the idea - DEC was buying less of the units than another Pertec
customer who was putting them on IBM systems (competing with the 3422), so
the door got redesigned. DEC used the change to change the name, since the
TU78 had developed such a reputation for reliability problems.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Today's Games Destined to be Classics
Keywords: Sigh
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:14:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.14gri6INN8pd
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <viking.711430669@vincent1.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
}	I remember some of the older Apple II classics: Gobbler, Sabotage,
}Car Wars, The Wizard and The Princess, and of course Brick Out.  Sigh!
}How simply we were satisfied in those days...

	Aztec, Prince of Persia [much more tolerable after being hacked onto
a 3.5" disk], Drol, Montezuma's Revenge.. There are too many to list.. Most
are worth finding the disks they're on every couple of weeks/months to play...
(luckily, most/all can be played on 3.5" floppies through a few convoluted
methods, so I don't have to hook up the 5.25" beasts)
-- 
/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu   used ADB trackball WANTED          Apple II Forever!\
\Mail me:Get INFOCOM GAMES RERELEASED,ULT VI GS done,for UNIX GS&CHEAP CD info/
What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head.
From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Pronouncing Unix names
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:32:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

In article <aldavi01.712385691@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:

>Better yet, how do you pronounced chmod,

     A lot of people say "see-aitch-mod".  But I'm feeling an
increasingly strong urge to pronounce it with a guttural "ch"
as in the Scottish "loch".  An "sh" pronounciation is, of course,
right out.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
"I'm cursed with hair from HELL!"  -- Night Court
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: stirling@ozrout.uucp (Stirling Westrup)
Subject: Re: Atari & Qix (was Re: Today's Games Destined to be Classics)
Organization: Andre P. Ozrout
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:11:44 GMT

higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes
>> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>>>	What's a classic game for your old PC's of non-clone make?
>
>My favorite game was Qix.  When I first saw it in the arcades, I loved
>it.  It was PURE VIDEO... not pictures of little creatures or robots
>or spaceships.  Qix was, um, hard to describe.  You moved a pencil
>around a rectangular playing field.  You could only draw horizontal or
>vertical lines, like an Etch-A-Sketch.  When you closed a polygon, it
>got shaded in.  Your score was proportional to the fraction of the
>screen you shaded in.  
>
I vividly remember the first time I played Qix.  It was in an arcade, and
someone else had just gotten blown up trying to draw a line.  I had watched
him for a couple of minutes, and thought I knew how the game worked.  So, I
put a quarter in, and within a second had drawn a line around the Qix, thus
'capturing' it, and getting a 100% screen-fill and mega bonus points.  When
folks took the time to explain to me how improbable that feat was, it
ruined my skill, and I never managed that trick again.

-- 
||    BUNGEE SIDEWAYS!                              o   )))
||                                                 /-- ///
|P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\_  \\\      __ -_
||    stirling@ozrout.uucp                                 ((( (_)T(_)
From: ajp1ddw@cabell.vcu.edu (David D. Wigand)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: HELP! My First Mainframe!!!
Date: 28 Jul 1992 14:45:04 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

   As I know people on this newsgroup seem to know more about the most 
  obscure computers out there I decided to bring this question to you.
  I have an old REI computer that has a Clearpoint board, 2 Charles River 
  boards, and what seemed to be Two CPU's Motorola 68000L12 and Motorola
  68000G8 on the top board (unidentified). The Clearpoint board is a
  VERSARAM (rev. cc) with 4 megs onboard and two NCR chips: NCR 0380477
  and NCR 0380475.  The Charles River boards have 74 Series Discrete Logic.
  As far as we can tell it is a REI/INFOREX machine model# 6040. If anyone 
  can confirm any of this or has any old manuals for this machine I would be 
  very happy to hear from you.

  BTW, this machine is running UNOS version D (supposedly a version of UNIX
  System V from the mid 80's) any info on this is apprieciated.

                                                    Thanks,
                                                           Doc
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ajp1ddw@cabell.vcu.edu 

                            Now where did I leave that pipe.....

                                              (crack)     | found it!
From: dougw@zippy.as.arizona.edu (Doug Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: What does dd stand for?
Date: 25 Jul 92 01:17:59 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

I am interested in the derivation of the name of the Unix command dd.  My
local Unix guru said he always assumed it stood for "device to device," but
could not substantiate this claim.  Any guesses??

----
dougw@as.arizona.edu
From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Life after CDs
Date: 25 Jul 92 12:05
Organization: Private Coherent 3.2.1 site waiting for 4.0

edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
> 
> Actually, Beethoven's Ninth is probably the best-known piece of
> Western classical music in Japan.  There are dozens of performances
> of it there a year--even "sing alongs" in German (likely the only
> German many of the participants know).

And it will be performed tonight at the opening of the olympic games.
It was performed in Berlin, after the wall was down, by Bernstein,
with the word "Freude"(joy) changed to "Freiheit"(freedom).
It indeed is one of the symbols of European Community, one that has
no political burden.

--ralf
------------------------------------------------- please ignore next sig!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: cc2x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Jeff Luszcz)
Subject: Racal-Vadic modem question.
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: Cornell University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:31:51 GMT

  I just found a Racal-Vadic aucustical modem.  VA3412/VI3412
 It didn't come with a cord so I don't know its power requirments.
  Anyone know?
   Thanks,
   -jeff


---
   Jeffrey Luszcz                   Internet Address
   210 Linden Ave Apt#3                cc2x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
   Ithaca,NY                        Bitnet Address
     14850                             cc2x@crnlvax5
                                    Tel:(607)273-6888
From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Life machines?
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:11:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

In article <liam.052a@durie.amigans.gen.nz> liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz
(Liam Greenwood) writes:

>    I also can't see how you can remove the display function from a Life
>benchmark, unless you're going to require all benchmarkable programs to
>display on a serial terminal. I 'spose you could write a Life program which
>didn't display, just reported what it had done at the end however it see
>a bit useless....

     My first Life program ran on a Univac 9300 (their answer to the
IBM 360/20).  We didn't have terminals, or even disk - it was strictly
a card-based system at the time.  I'd print my output on the line
printer.  Since even at 600 lpm it took several seconds to print
one page, I added an option that would make it print every nth
generation; then I could get it to grind a generation or two per
second with occasional peeks at what was happening.  I took the
R-pentomino a fair distance that way.

     Of course, you use what you have available, and in 1971 that
wasn't much.  (But then it took an even worse hack to see my first
Mandelbrot display...)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
I'm trying to develop a photographic memory.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: syswtr@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
Subject: Re: Gig or Jig?dir
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:32:37 GMT

 In article <Bs5zuI.L0s@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, dp35@mc1adm.UWaterloo.ca (Greg Moore) writes:
> These are results after 1 day:
> 
> So far, "Gig" with hard g's seems to be the standard.
> The one no vote mentioned that he was not in the 
> majority by saying "jiga".
> 
  Any piper, worth his salt, would be playing it, not pronouncing it...

  (Oops, wrong news group...

   _===
     :-)

 (Thats an attempt at a 'piper smiley folks...

Bye
Willy