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From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits?
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 09:56:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B86430DB-C1B9-4F35-BE14-86B0D68735D0@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202209081651.288Gp6ag355864@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

i can’t find my copy of “pixel”, but i would guess he might mention that.

> On Sep 8, 2022, at 9:51 AM, Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
> 
> One of those questions for which there is no search engine incantation.
> 
> Jon


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08 16:51 [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2022-09-08 16:56 ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2022-09-08 17:28 ` [TUHS] " 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
2022-09-09  1:33 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-09  2:12 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-13 14:23   ` John Foust via TUHS
2022-09-09  2:45 ` George Michaelson
2022-09-16  5:55 ` Marc Donner
2022-09-09 17:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-09 18:46 Norman Wilson
2022-09-10  1:35 ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-09 19:39 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-09-09 20:27 ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-09 21:12   ` Henry Bent
2022-09-09 21:44   ` Dave Horsfall
2022-09-11 13:30 Douglas McIlroy
2022-09-11 15:08 ` John Cowan
2022-09-11 15:30 ` Bakul Shah
2022-09-11 15:45   ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-11 16:20     ` Steve Nickolas

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