From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] Anyone know what a LANTERN is
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:43:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <636FE10E-8E87-4EB0-A66E-95BCD8F5DA4C@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201707301114.v6UBEEmc029284@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
> On Jul 30, 2017, at 4:14 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> I have no actual information about the lantern character, but
> a tapered "storm lantern" would be far down my list of guesses.
> The tapered chmney would much more likely be called a "lamp",
> for it's a standard shape for the oil (kerosene) lamps
> that everyone had before electricity.
It's a long shot, but might it be related to APL's 'lamp' operator? (U+235D)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-30 11:14 Doug McIlroy
2017-07-30 11:17 ` Alec Muffett
2017-07-31 16:50 ` Paul Winalski
2017-07-31 17:52 ` ron minnich
2017-07-31 20:01 ` Warner Losh
2017-07-31 20:04 ` Warner Losh
2017-07-31 21:25 ` Earl Baugh
2017-07-31 23:46 ` Kevin Schoedel
2017-07-30 17:43 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2017-07-30 22:33 Norman Wilson
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