Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!nikhefk!paulm From: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Huh? Message-ID: <372@nikhefk.UUCP> Date: 24 May 88 07:52:04 GMT References: <440009@hpdstma.HP.COM> <6546@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <321@uva.UUCP> Reply-To: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) Organization: Host: NIKHEF Organization: Personal Computer Magazine, Holland Lines: 31 In article <321@uva.UUCP> freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk) writes: #In article <6546@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes: #>(The program was written by Bo3b, incedentally. #>Pierce WEtter # #Incidental question: why is this person called "Bo3b" instead of "Bob"? #Has it something to do with MacinTalk? #I asked myself this same question when I read tech. notes 134 and 139. # #-- # As far as I've heard.... when you have MacinTalk pronounce Bo3b, it comes out something like Booooob (as in: 'I need you here, right away') Kind of a desperate cry for that person. Seems like he was very well know for all the people in the Apple building crying out for him when they needed something. But I could be mistaken... Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty - -- Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty -