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From: philipc@runx.oz.au (Philip Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: What does .MPP acronym stand for?
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.005727.1813@runx.oz.au>
Date: 29 Jun 91 00:57:27 GMT
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Reply-To: philipc@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Philip Craig)
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In article <64879@bbn.BBN.COM> rmitchel@bbn.com (Rob Mitchell) writes:
>
>   I know it sounds silly, but after you read IM-I & V enough
>   one starts to wonder about some of the wierdest things.
Xref: munnari.OZ.AU comp.protocols.appletalk:6617

We could hazard a guess and say it stands for "Macintosh Printing Protocol".
When it was introduced that's all it was used for. It's hard to translate
MPP into anything meaningful to do with the fact that it's the driver for
the LocalTalk implementation of the AppleTalk protocol.
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