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- From: Philip Machanick <philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za>
- Subject: Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.080023.16440@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
- X-Xxdate: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:52:58 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:00:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.050621.12649@cs.brown.edu> Michael Lee,
- cs123052@cs.brown.edu writes:
- >This *whole* argument is flame bait.
-
- I've often wondered how this mixed metaphor has lasted so long on the net.
- Shouldn't that be "kindling"? Or some volatile substance?
-
- (I've waited a long time for the right moment to post this - a flame
- war which is so pointless that any diversion would be welcome.)
- --
- Philip Machanick
- Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
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