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From: cstacy@world.std.com (Christopher C Stacy)
Subject: Re: Alleging name theft, Bob Dylan sues Apple Computer
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ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>Human names *are* "computerese sounding".
>Let's just look at a list of people's names used in computing.
>This is just what I can recall off the top of my head.
>	Amdahl
>g	Jove

"Amdahl" is for Gene Amdahl (president of his own computer manufacturing
company, after he left IBM.)  "Jove" is an ancronym whose first letter
stands for a person named "Jules", not the god Jupiter.
