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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Origin/meaning of zoo, looz, fiz, stuff, etc.
Message-ID: <5840002@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 04:20:32 GMT
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>I've made use of Zoo and its accompaniments for over a year now, but I
>still am missing on the origin/meaning of `zoo' and `looz'.
>

  Sigh... I don't for certain, but would imagine that both 'zoos' and 
'arks' (a bad pun, it is true!) are things that hold animals.

				Dave Ritchie