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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits?
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:51:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202209081651.288Gp6ag355864@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)

One of those questions for which there is no search engine incantation.

Jon

             reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08 16:51 Jon Steinhart [this message]
2022-09-08 16:56 ` [TUHS] " Andrew Hume
2022-09-08 17:28 ` Dan Halbert
2022-09-09  0:00   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-09-09 15:49     ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-09 18:44       ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-08 18:20 Noel Chiappa
2022-09-08 19:28 ` Jim Capp
2022-09-08 21:16 Noel Chiappa
2022-09-08 21:24 ` Dan Halbert

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