From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] scanner support From: nigel@9fs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-mtfetiiyljwektpzcjeosobwmq" Message-Id: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 06:51:13 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d41d0992-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-mtfetiiyljwektpzcjeosobwmq Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whether TWAIN really stands for that is reaching urban myth status. www.twain.org used to say that it doesn't stand for anything, which sounded like an organisation wanting to forget an embarassing past. Now they say that it is derived from the expression "and never the twain shall meet", and that a contest was held retrospectively to find an acronym. They didn't like any of the suggestions, but Technology Without An Interesting Name was one of the entries and it has haunted them ever since. They quote the Free Online Dictionary of Computing for added emphasis. http://www.twain.org/faq.htm --upas-mtfetiiyljwektpzcjeosobwmq Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by cpu; Mon Jul 23 03:53:21 BST 2001 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.16.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id BAAE0199F4; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:52:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ETLA.NET (c61066-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.254.1.3]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id B78B1199EB for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:51:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jonathan Sergent To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] scanner support MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010723025152.B78B1199EB@mail.cse.psu.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:50:31 -0700 >(I think the name `TWAIN' has something to do with this). TWAIN == "Technology without an interesting name" (seriously) For what it's worth, photopc works fine under APE for getting images off of many types of digital cameras (over serial interfaces, not USB). --upas-mtfetiiyljwektpzcjeosobwmq--