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From: ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Frivolous standardization, in conclusion...
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Date: 9 Nov 88 15:16:57 GMT
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In article <42497@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald)
writes:  
> >On sheer number of repies I suppose we could declare "oppy" the winner,
 >though I still think it's a shame about flopty, and his fellow rabbits. 

"Oppy" is inappropriate in that it is the well-known nickname of Robert J.
Oppenheimer; an "oppy" would play better as some obscure unit of measure
named in his memory than as a cute name for Euro-Japanese fad technology. :-)



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