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Article #670Re: grok?
From: ahof... Alan M. Hoffman
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 10:27
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 10:27
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In article <12...@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> pa...@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) writes: >Can somebody enlighten me as the the [computer?] etymology of "grok". It's >a great word! Actually, it has nothing to do with computers. "Grok" came from Robert A. Heinlein's STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND. It is a term used to describe complete and total understanding, as if two minds are one. ---------------------------------------------------------- OO OO OOO OOOO Alan M. Hoffman/UCS Operations OO OO OO OO ARPA: ahof...@skat.usc.edu Compuserve: 74066,1363 OO OO OO OO UUCP: uunet!usc!ahoffman Phone: (818) 548-5182 OOO OOO OOOO
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!usc!skat.usc.edu!ahoffman From: ahof...@skat.usc.edu (Alan M. Hoffman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: grok? Message-ID: <22052@usc.edu> Date: 1 Jan 90 10:27:56 GMT References: <12588@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: ne...@usc.edu Organization: University Computing Services--U.S.C. Lines: 14 Posted: Mon Jan 1 11:27:56 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit