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From: tlimonce@drunivac.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Happy New (Year|Decade)!
Summary: silly followup
Keywords: silly humor ha ha ha ha
Message-ID: <28470.25a1c849@drunivac.uucp>
Date: 3 Jan 90 09:39:20 GMT
References: <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> <B$gsry@cs.psu.edu> <254@estinc.UUCP>
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In article <254@estinc.UUCP>, fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:

> Well, my dictionary defines a decade as "a period of ten years" without
> saying anything about alignment restrictions.  Thus I guess you could

I heard that the 68040 removes all alignment restrictions. :-)
Does that mean that Moto can say, "It'll be released within the 
decade" and keep changing their definition?

> argue that every second marks the end of SOME decade.  The ones that
> end at midnight on Dec 31st, of years ending in 9 are probably the
> most celebrated ones.  :-)

-Tom
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Tom Limoncelli       The computer industry should spend more time in front of
tlimonce@drew.uucp              their computers.  Remember when "Look & Feel"
tlimonce@drew.Bitnet                      was what you tried to do on a date?
limonce@pilot.njin.net