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why three syncs?
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From: t...@uvmark.uucp (Tom Rauschenbach)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: why three syncs?
Keywords: bellman sync three
Message-ID: <1991Sep06.180423.17581@uvmark.uucp>
Date: 6 Sep 91 18:04:23 GMT
References: <1991Sep04.194822.22074@uvmark.uucp> <3949@datum.nyo.dec.com> <1991Sep5.204148.8576@Think.COM>
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.
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In article <1991Sep5.204148.8...@Think.COM> d...@think.com writes:
>Lewis Carroll in _Hunting of the Snark_ writes:
> > What I tell you three times is true.
>
>--
>david mankins (d...@think.com)
Yes! This is exactly what I was alluding to, but judging from the responses
so far, this must not be behind the three syncs. I was just speculating
that it might be, now I'm convinced that it's not. I guess we can all go back
to debating if "foo" comes from "FUBAR".
--
Tom Rauschenbach "I see nobody on the road," said Alice.
"I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be
able to see Nobody ! And at that distance too !" ..uunet!merk!uvmark!tom