In <94c476c03bff5e42ac3518fdac9643c4e2de970...@hqmail.rocketsoftware.com>,
on 11/20/2009
at 01:13 PM, Bill Fairchild <bi...@mainstar.com> said:
>I had some interaction with one of the FAA's Air Route Traffic Control
>Centers in May, 1978. The IBM mainframes then being used by the FAA
>were specialty versions of the S/360 models 50 and 65 that could do
>multiprocessing, meaning two or more CPUs sharing central storage.
9020.
>7. Several maroons (according to William Blair, a bipedal species
>significantly lower on the evolution tree than morons)
Are you sure that he didn't give a citation for the cartoon origin of the
term? Google for "What a maroon".
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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