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Article #4987Re: The Atlantic Ocean (was Re: You think you had it rough)
From: kleo... Ken Leonard
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 1990 15:52
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 1990 15:52
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In article <23...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes: * ... * an.a.logue \'an-<\e>l-,<o.>g, -,<a:>g\ n (1826) * [F analogue, fr. analogue analogous, fr. Gk analogos] *... * 4: a synthetic food product made of vegetable matter (as soybeans) * and used as a meat substitute * ... * an.a.log \'an-<\e>l-,<o.>g, -,<a:>g\ adj (1946) * ... * 2b: of or relating to an analog computer * ... * And does this mean that early computers were made from * soybeans? ----------------- How do you think the term _bean_counter_ originated? ----- regardz, Ken
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlv2!gvlv1!kleonard From: kleo...@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Atlantic Ocean (was Re: You think you had it rough) Message-ID: <1006@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 12 Oct 90 15:52:01 GMT References: <3452@mindlink.UUCP> <2364@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: ne...@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM Reply-To: kleonard@gvlv1.UUCP (Ken Leonard) Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 19 Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:52:01 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit