Re: [ILUG-BOM] What's in a box? [Off Topic]

[Philip S Tellis]

Sometime Today, vulcan assembled some asciibets to say:

V> please give a clue about the names thrain, denthor. A box
V> named Tallis can do with some imaginativeness.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's Tellis.  Don't change my names.  Denthor as in Denthor of Asphyxia.  
Old timers from the demo scene will recognise the name.  Others won't.  
Pretty cool dude at graphics programming.  I learnt all my 3D transforms
from his articles on the PCGPE.

BTW, what's imaginativeness?  Always thought that the noun form of imagine
was imagination.

V> and which box you are talking about.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That would be "are you talking about?"

The one you're staring at.  BTW, for the unintiated, the plural of box is
boxen.

   box n.

   1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some
   functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus,
   `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes
   before handing it up to the mainframe."

I think you should read through the jargon file before you get back here.

Philip

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