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- From: mjohnsto@jenny.shearson.com (Mike Johnston)
- Subject: Re: AT&T news release
- In-Reply-To: neal@hp536.even.ge.com's message of 22 Jan 93 14:18:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <MJOHNSTO.93Jan22134335@jenny.shearson.com>
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Organization: Lehman Brothers
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:43:35 GMT
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- In article <neal.727712295@hp536> neal@hp536.even.ge.com (U-E59382-David Neal) writes:
- >Reminds me of a programming class in college. Our teacher
- >held up a foot long piece of wire and said, "Does anybody
- >know what this is?" [stuff deleted]
- > *This* is a nanosecond!"
- >--
- Lest we forget, this is Lt. Commander (correct rank?) Grace Hopper's
- trademark. Many of us, I'm sure, still treasure the 'nanoseconds' she
- distributed at her public appearances.
-
- Lest we ALSO not forget that she's buried six nanoseconds down.
-
- 8-)
-
- MJ
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- Michael R. Johnston, System Administrator mjohnsto@shearson.com
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
- persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
- depends on the unreasonable man." - G.B. Shaw
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