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From: eric@gadgetguru.com (Eric O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:49:55 GMT
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On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 15:07:03 -0400, Jonathan Bodarky
<jbodarky@ncofsi.com> wrote:

>    I have to laugh.  Only in this group (or a comp.unix.*) would this
>discussion digress from building a list of UNIX abbreviations to a
>heated debate over which term properly describes whatever it is we are
>talking about.

Not so. In virtually any Macintosh newsgroup, all discussions digress
from the subject at hand to how PC's and Bill Gates suck.