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From: gvg@hp-pcd.UUCP (gvg)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: What does Kobayashi Maru mean anyway
Message-ID: <13100026@hp-pcd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 10:32:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  7 10:32:00 1985
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Nf-From: hp-pcd!gvg    Apr  9 07:32:00 1985

> Subject: What does Kobayashi Maru mean anyway?

> Anyone out there know how this translates? (I presume from Japanese.)

from: G.V. Goebel / Hewlett-Packard / Corvallis Division
date: Tuesday, 9 March 1985

I do not speak Japanese, but I know that "maru" is a generic term for
a merchant vessel.  Kobayashi sounds like a proper name - for a person
or a city ... I will ask Mr. Katsuo Yokoyama at this site for more details.

                                         Regards - GVG
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