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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: The Man form W.O.M.B.A.T.
Message-ID: <550@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 14:20:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 18 14:20:00 1984
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Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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I was always told that WOMBAT stood for:
	Write
	Only
	Memory
	BATch oriented

and was used by large mainframes to degrade system performance of on-line
systems so that DP managers could prove that converting to on-line systems
was a mistake!


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