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  2. From: yandros@MIT.EDU (Chad Phillip Brown)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.gopher
  4. Subject: Re: More people would use gopher if ...
  5. Date: 16 Nov 1992 08:02:20 GMT
  6. Organization: /mit/yandros/.organizations
  7. Lines: 17
  8. Message-ID: <YANDROS.92Nov16030217@deathtongue.MIT.EDU>
  9. References: <BxMJLI.n0B@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <19921113081406SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> <Bxoxqt.Jvo@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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  11. In-reply-to: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 14 Nov 92 05:25:40 GMT
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  14. > Just think if someone named a COMPUTER gopher. GOD what a marketing
  15. > disaster that would be.
  16.  
  17. Heh.  Until this year, MIT students in Course 6 (that's Electrical
  18. Enginerring and Computer Science, for those of you who don't use
  19. numbers for EVERYTHING :-)  started out programming in Scheme on a
  20. machine made by HP, called a `Chipmunk'.  This last year, they were
  21. replaced with HP 9000 `Snakes'.  
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