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In article <Cvv7qp.3E0@cs.dal.ca>, hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca (Kevin B. Hayes) wrote:
> Christopher C Stacy so eloquently professed:
> : 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.
> 
> I thought JOVE stood for Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs.
> 
> Could be wrong though.
> Kev.
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin Hayes                    |      "My opinions do necessarily 
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> hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca             |


I through that JOVE stood for Joe's Own Version of Emacs.

I could be wrong through,

Anthony Schlemmer

aschlemm@netcom.com


