Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!MATH.RUTGERS.EDU!bumby From: bumby@MATH.RUTGERS.EDU (Richard Bumby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: Re: "Real world" interfaces Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 16:34:17 GMT References: <1991Jan14.033929.9849@macc.wisc.edu> <91019.145559GREBM@CUNYVM.BITNET> Sender: mwm@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu This has gone far enough! The original posting came from the UK where "mains" is a simple, commonly used word for anything that you plug into the wall. There seems to be no equivalent in the American language that we call "English". -- --R. T. Bumby ** Math ** Rutgers ** New Brunswick ** NJ08903 ** USA -- above postal address abbreviated by internet to bumby@math.rutgers.edu voice communication unreliable -- telephone ignored -- please use Email