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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: brash micros versus the Big Iron: not yet
Message-ID: <575@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 06:46:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: l.575
Posted: Sun Sep 13 06:46:54 1987
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Summary: The term is old

In article <8992@ut-sally.UUCP>, nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
> Orson Scott Card coined the term "wetware" ... meaning bio-organisms, who,
> when struck too hard, splash ... e.g., us.

The term wetware is very old.  In 1965, I was told this term (in distinction
to hardware and software) by someone at IBM in San Jose.  He said where he
got it, but I do not remember.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
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