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Re: Double Bucky

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From: e... Edward Vielmetti
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 04:06
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Too good to pass up, this is for the a.f.c. songbook:

In article <21...@mimsy.umd.edu> d...@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins) writes:

	   Double Bucky
	   (Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie")	

	   Double bucky, you're the one!
	   You make my keyboard lots of fun
	     Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
	   (Vo-vo-de-o!)
	   Control and Meta side by side,
	   Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
	     Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs,
		      plus a few!
	       Oh,
	       I sure wish that I
	       Had a couple of
		   bits more!
	       Perhaps a
	       Set of pedals to
	       Make the number of
		   Bits four:
	       Double double bucky!
	   Double bucky, left and right
	   OR'd together, outta sight!
	       Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
	       Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
	       Double bucky, I'd like a whole
		   word of you!

	   (C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.

	   (For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits"
	   comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who
	   suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36
	   bit machines for use by screen editors.)
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From: e...@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Double Bucky
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Date: 22 Dec 89 04:06:26 GMT
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