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From: arnold@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK (Toby Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: History
Message-ID: <1266@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 09:15:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 09:15:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 09:12:53 EDT
Reply-To: thoward%cgu.cs.man.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Toby Howard)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
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Keywords: History, foo, bar
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I know about the derivation of the ubiquitous "foo bar", but
what I would like to discover is when it *first* appeared as
a term of computer jargon. I'd like to track it down. Any help
gratefully received. Replies by email please.

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Toby Howard      Computer Graphics Unit, Manchester University, UK.
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