From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:15:02 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2112231713550.19418@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3915e4db-6740-9777-03f4-4c6b4c09045c@csp-partnership.co.uk>
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2021, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote:
> Interesting - have you always done that? Or is it a more recent use of the
> word?
>
> 50 years ago our (Scottish) schooling used only Arithmetic for the basic
> number manipulation. About 10-15 years ago maffs became the name. I dont
> know how the transition occured with us. Schools? or Media?? Perhaps we
> have just imported the name from the good old US of A ;-)
It was the norm in the US at least around 1985ish. Can't speak for
earlier.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-23 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-22 15:11 [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs Alexander Jacocks via TUHS
2021-12-22 20:31 ` josh
2021-12-22 21:07 ` Rob Pike
2021-12-22 21:15 ` Rob Pike
2021-12-23 4:28 ` Warren Toomey
2021-12-23 4:31 ` Alexander Jacocks via TUHS
2021-12-23 4:45 ` Rob Pike
2021-12-22 21:14 ` Win Treese
2021-12-23 0:48 ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-23 1:30 ` Adam Sampson
2021-12-23 2:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 13:05 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-12-23 14:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 15:29 ` [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 16:00 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 16:28 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 16:35 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 16:47 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 22:15 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2021-12-24 20:57 ` Derek Fawcus
2021-12-23 16:02 ` Warner Losh
2021-12-23 16:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 22:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-12-24 3:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-28 21:45 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-12-29 16:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-09 19:04 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-12-25 0:00 ` [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs Mike Markowski
2021-12-29 2:44 ` Alexander Jacocks via TUHS
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