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From: jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray)
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Subject: Re: Use TWIT instead of HACKER
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Date: Sat, 24-Dec-83 13:45:04 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 24 13:45:04 1983
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  I will continue to refer to myself as a kernel- and microcode- hacker,
and will simply use the interpretation of the term as an immediate means
of distinguishing between fellow hackers and those Outside of The Priesthood,
the Great UnBitMapped. Note that GTE and their Telenet branch are among the
latter. In several years the low-horsepower Time/Newsweek crowd will have
something else to blather about. Hackers will outlive them.
  (Note that I in general try to avoid Electronic Elitism, but when the
Savages are at the very Gates of the Empire, the old Civil/Empire player
in me is aroused.)

--Jim Bray	(decvax!bbncca!jbray), jbray@bbncca