| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 401.1 | Really? | WELSWS::MANNION | Farewell Welfare, Pt. 3 | Fri Aug 21 1987 04:55 | 9 |
| "To lase"???????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
Gee, you Murricans.
What about Light Emitting Diodes giving LEDded windows?
OK, I made it up, but it's still early over here, and it's Friday.
Phillip
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| 401.2 | jeep? | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Men's sauna in corpore sano | Fri Aug 21 1987 07:53 | 5 |
| If there's a verb 'to bus' (transitive in American English and
intransitive in British English), what about 'jeep' as a verb?
That would qualify (General Purpose).
Bob
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| 401.3 | Lase that alien! | COMICS::KEY | Calling International Rescue... | Fri Aug 21 1987 08:23 | 12 |
| From my days as a Physics undergraduate (England) I remember "to
lase" being used. I don't think anyone would have put it into a
technical document, though. Physicists have a pretty low standard
of literacy, anyway.
From the same source, we have:
Quasar (Quasi-Stellar object)
Pulsar (Pulsating Stellar object)
Radar (damn, what *was* that short for?)
Andy
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| 401.4 | | ERASER::KALLIS | Raise Hallowe'en awareness. | Fri Aug 21 1987 08:32 | 6 |
| Re .3:
>Radar (damn, what *was* that short for?)
RAdio Detection And Ranging.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 401.5 | Off the beam? | TOPDOC::SLOANE | Bruce is on the loose | Fri Aug 21 1987 09:15 | 3 |
| On weekends, many people just lase around the house.
-bs
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| 401.6 | SCUBA | KESEY::GETSINGER | Eric Getsinger | Fri Aug 21 1987 10:58 | 1 |
| self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
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| 401.7 | What was that... | VAXWRK::SIMON | | Fri Aug 21 1987 16:32 | 8 |
| Re .2
>...(General Purpose)
or was that General Motors... Oh yes, it was American Motors...
I'm so confused
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| 401.8 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Science Is Golden | Sat Aug 22 1987 08:23 | 12 |
| re:.1
Yes, "to lase" means "to function as a laser; emit coherent radiation
by the action of a laser." The AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY gives
its etymology as "Back-formation from LASER".
re:.3 & .6
Well, those acronyms certainly have becomes "real" words, though
they haven't gone quite the distance that laser has.
--- jerry
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| 401.9 | SPOOLing, anyone? | IND::BOWERS | Count Zero Interrupt | Mon Sep 14 1987 17:01 | 3 |
| Someone may remember that "spool" (e.g., what you do with printer
output) originally stood for "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations
On Line".
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| 401.10 | | ERIS::CALLAS | Strange days, indeed. | Tue Sep 15 1987 09:38 | 7 |
| Sorry, but I raise an eyebrow at that. Spool (meaning to wind on to a
spool) is a wonderfully poetic vision of what you do when you spool
stuff to the printer. I don't doubt that someone somewhere created that
acronym, but I'll bet the term came first, the acronym second. Do you
have a reference?
Jon
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| 401.11 | | IND::BOWERS | Count Zero Interrupt | Tue Sep 15 1987 10:16 | 3 |
| I don't remember the exact reference, but I believe it was an IBM
manual from the 1401 era. And yes, IBM used to be very good at turning
words into acronyms.
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| 401.12 | Intentional density | LYMPH::LAMBERT | Seems to me it's Chemistry | Tue Sep 15 1987 17:13 | 6 |
| Gee, I didn't know IBM was producing products ("producting"? :-)) in
1401. Wow. I'm impressed.
;-)
-- Sam
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| 401.13 | Don't you believe what you see on TV? | KESEY::GETSINGER | Eric Getsinger | Wed Sep 16 1987 12:16 | 4 |
| Anyone who watches TV knows that the monks in IBM's ads are not simply
a product of marketing. The monks provide a historical reference.
Eric
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| 401.14 | Not ((HAL)-1) | HARDY::KENAH | Doing laps in the gene pool | Wed Sep 16 1987 12:29 | 12 |
| Sorry, those are Xerox monks...
Xerox monks...
Xerox monks...
Xerox monks...
Xerox monks...
andrew
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| 401.15 | oops | KESEY::GETSINGER | Eric Getsinger | Wed Sep 16 1987 15:51 | 3 |
| I guess I don't watch enough TV. :?) Thanks for straightening me out.
Eric
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| 401.16 | There's no religion on Madison Ave. | DSSDEV::STONE | Roy | Wed Sep 16 1987 16:45 | 4 |
| And the fellow who plays (at least he used to about 5 years ago)
the part of the monk in the Xerox ads is a Jewish boy from New York!
(I met him at a trade show awhile back.)
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| 401.17 | | YIPPEE::LIRON | | Mon Nov 02 1987 11:53 | 10 |
| In a (great) training facility in the UK, there's a machine
which has for welcome message:
Shire Hall Internal Training
One more example of an acronym which has grown up to become
a real word, increasingly used in day-to-day life.
roger
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| 401.18 | Not the right sentiment, I guess | THEBAY::GOODMAN | That was Zen, this is Tao | Thu Apr 23 1992 09:42 | 6 |
| I suppose this is the place to put the name of a church near Oakland,
CA which was the First Unitarian Church of Kensington.
They changed the name recently, though.
Roy
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