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- From: r0mill01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (COMPDIGEST)
- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) GALLUA why spell it that way? (12)
- Sender: news@netnews.louisville.edu (Netnews)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.211421.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:14:21 GMT
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- Organization: University of Louisville
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- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 19:59:30 EDT
- From: IN%"RobertRoyar@Delphi.com" Robert Royar (C&CD Moderator)
- Message-Id: <1992Sep09.195930.1.Grendel.Lair@Cratylus>
- Subject: GALLUA why spell it that way? (12)
- Reply-to: IN%"R0MILL01@ULKYVX.LOUISVILLE.EDU" C&CD
- Organization: Cratylus Educational Software
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- Trent Batson <TWBATSON@GALLUA.BITNET> in message
- <01GOL4Y2V48G9TCNO5@ulkyvx.bitnet> responding to queries about his address
- writes
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- >"GALLUA" stands for Gallaudet University VAX A (what else?).
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- >Why the computer folks here couldn't see the kind of confusion everyone
- >here is commenting on (between the AU in Gallaudet and the UA in Gallua)
- >is beyond me;
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- I believe that the original Bitnet setup imposed a six-character limit on site
- names--hence GALLUA, GALLUB, ULKYVX, UCBVAX, etc. The old PDPs had
- six-character file names, and site names are really just another file in the
- stream.
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- -- Robert Royar (RobertRoyar@Delphi.com) New York Institute of Technology
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