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- From: ceb@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Colin Bridgewater)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Neuron chips for robotics
- Message-ID: <ceb.716579281@reading>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 17:48:01 GMT
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- demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers) writes:
- >OK, I give up. I came up with two dozen or so 3-word phrases
- >that have LON as an acronym, but none seem to be satisfactory
- >for this thread. What's a "LON"?
-
- LON is short for Local Operating Network.... It's a proprietary term coined
- by Echelon (the US company set up by one of the founders of Apple) to make
- their product instantly memorable. Apart, that is, from the initial costs ($)
- of buying into the technology....
-
- Colin
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