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| 1150.1 | | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Wed Aug 02 1995 23:37 | 13 |
| Yes.
xfer, xlate
I've seen a couple of others which I can't recall off-hand.
Xfer is quite common when referring to data. It's been around for <cough>
years.
Chele
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| 1150.2 | | KOLFAX::GOODMAN | I see you shiver with antici.........pation! | Thu Aug 03 1995 16:19 | 6 |
| Did it start with three-character designations for characters? Like
SOH, EOT, XMT, XON, XOFF (well, short designations)
I forget which character maps to XMT, though...
Roy
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| 1150.3 | | ALLVAX::GELINEAU | fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion | Thu Aug 03 1995 16:29 | 3 |
| and of course... Xmas (hee hee)
--angela
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| 1150.4 | | OSOSPS::KAGEYAMA | Trust, but Verify | Thu Aug 03 1995 18:09 | 17 |
|
.2> Did it start with three-character designations for characters? Like
Good point! I agree with your idea.
.2> I forget which character maps to XMT, though...
transmit?
.3> and of course... Xmas (hee hee)
When "x" is used for replacing some characters, they usually contains
all or some parts of [iks] pronunciation. "Xmas" is one of its variatons
and "thanx" is much more clear example. But "xfer" is away from that
rule. So I thought there must be some stories. Thanx, everyone!
- Kazunori
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| 1150.5 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Aug 03 1995 19:08 | 14 |
| ASCII control codes have nothing to do with it.
Railroad X'ings have existed for over a century. The abbreviation
was surely obvious, and the only question is whether this kind of
abbreviation had been used even earlier or not.
The Latin root "trans" is related to the English word "cross" so
the connexion is obvious again.
The X in Xmas can also be considered to represent a cross. This
time I doubt that this is how the abbreviation originated, but
again the connexion exists.
-- Norman Diamond
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| 1150.6 | | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Hi-ho! Yow! I'm surfing Arpanet! | Thu Aug 03 1995 20:33 | 6 |
| Wonderful etymology-by-induction, Norman. I somehow felt that there
WAS something "right" about X as trans, but you put your finger right
where X marks the spot on!!
Thanks!
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| 1150.7 | | SMURF::BINDER | Night's candles are burnt out. | Fri Aug 04 1995 07:04 | 10 |
| The X in Xmas can be seen as figuring the cross, but that's a fairly
recent view that came into being primarily to counter the charge that
X, frequently used as as a mathematical unknown, was taking the Christ
out of Christmas.
The much earlier meaning of the X in Xmas is to represent chi, the
first letter of the Greek spelling of Christ (Xpi�tos, where �
represents the form of sigma used in the middle of a word). The form
Xmas has been in use by Christians (Xians) for hundreds of years; it's
documented in 1551.
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| 1150.8 | | BBRDGE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Fri Aug 04 1995 15:48 | 16 |
| I remember the "trans" prefix version from my EE classes for "Xistor"
which if memory serves me well was invented in 1947 and so documented
shortly thereafter.
I like the data communications idea (which surely came after
transistors) because any transmit/receive pinouts are usually show as ;
1 - - 1
2 -. .- 2
\ /
x
/ \
3 _/ \_ 3
4 etc...
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| 1150.9 | | BBRDGE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Fri Aug 04 1995 16:06 | 8 |
| I neglected to mention that as most EE degrees require a science
foundation (physics, chem, maths), then it is a pretty safe bet that
the EE usage was a xmogrification of the long established Chemistry
use of trans-so-and-so for geometric isomers. This replacement of "X"
for "trans" is pretty obvious when you draw a geometric isomer.
The meaning in Chem is "crossing" or "bridging" whereas for x-istor the
"trans" stem is already formally documented as a truncation of "transfer".
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| 1150.10 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | Hi-ho! Yow! I'm surfing Arpanet! | Fri Aug 04 1995 18:32 | 2 |
| Well as long as you brought Chem into it, may I observe that the
Cistine Chapel was a Xforming experience.
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| 1150.11 | ex | ALLVAX::GELINEAU | fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion | Sat Aug 05 1995 09:23 | 3 |
| nice one Dan (re cis- and trans- iso's)
--angela
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| 1150.12 | Tnx! -- from both my isomers: | DRDAN::KALIKOW | Cyberian Ambassador to DIGITAL | Sat Aug 05 1995 11:12 | 3 |
| From my Normal, un-X-formed: |-{:-)
and from
my C-ter: (-:}-|
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| 1150.13 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Sun Aug 06 1995 19:09 | 16 |
|
Ph.D.
______/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\______/
\
Ph.D
Paradocs
-- x.
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| 1150.14 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | Cyberian Ambassador to DIGITAL | Sun Aug 06 1995 19:56 | 4 |
| That was parrafine, not paradocs, Norman...
Kudos!! :-)
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| 1150.15 | x-formed | BBRDGE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Mon Aug 07 1995 05:28 | 16 |
|
10�
______/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\______/
\
10�
Paradigms
/C
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| 1150.16 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | Cyberian Ambassador to DIGITAL | Mon Aug 07 1995 06:18 | 14 |
| 10�
______/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\______/
/
10�
Paradigms-shift
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| 1150.17 | | ALLVAX::GELINEAU | fear, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion | Mon Aug 07 1995 16:10 | 9 |
|
paradigms lost
--angela
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| 1150.18 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | My Cow is dead! | Mon Aug 07 1995 17:16 | 26 |
|
------^===========<bang>
/____/ �
______/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\______/
/
------^===========<bang>
/____/ �
parashoots
I'm sorry..
djw
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| 1150.19 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Mon Aug 07 1995 18:19 | 16 |
| Sorry, .18 is transshoots.
TKO
______/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\______/
/
VBO
xsites
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| 1150.20 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Aug 10 1995 03:08 | 21 |
| ______
/ \
/ \__DUA0:
\ /
\______/
/ \
______/ DUA1:
/ \
/ \
\ /
\______/
/
______/
/ \
/ \__DUB0:
\ /
\______/
\
DUB1:
transistor
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| 1150.21 | Is it that I don't know enuf chem or enuf hardware... | DRDAN::KALIKOW | RTFW | Thu Aug 10 1995 03:32 | 1 |
| ... to get .20? Explanation please...
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| 1150.22 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Aug 10 1995 19:59 | 8 |
| Re .21
trans cis store
To make up for it, I didn't understand the pun that you posted
recently to whichever pun note that was. Figured I didn't know
enough of something or other.
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| 1150.23 | Chemistry Corrections | wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee | Wook like book with a W | Sun Sep 17 1995 23:23 | 59 |
| Sorry to break up the party, but those aromatic puns stink.
The correct designations are:
Ortho as in Orthodox
Ph.D.
_____/
/ \
/ \_Ph.D.
\ /
\_____/
Meta as in I met a girl.
I
_____/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\_____/
\
girl
Para as in Paradox
MD
_____/
/ \
/ \
\ /
\_____/
/
MD
Also, cis and trans are typically relative to a single double bond. (How's
that for an oxymoron a.k.a. O=moron :-)
Cis as in Scissors
Or Or
\ /
==
Trans as in transits
pimple
\
==
\
pimple
or transfers
Mink
\
==
\
Mink
Wook
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| 1150.24 | | TELGAR::WAKEMANLA | like a silicon armadillo | Tue Sep 19 1995 10:08 | 14 |
| Wook,
You forgot one:
Fe Fe
\_____/
/ \
Fe_/ \_Fe
\ /
\_____/
/ \
Fe Fe
A Ferrous Wheel
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| 1150.25 | Here's one I should have forgot! | 16.124.224.10::LEE | | Tue Sep 19 1995 12:57 | 30 |
| CH3
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____/
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \
_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ \_____/
/
CH3
Dimethyl Chicken Wire
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| 1150.26 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | DIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName&Glory! | Tue Sep 19 1995 14:58 | 6 |
| Anyone willing to type in that many -\/s must be suffering from
organic
(chemistry)
dain bramage.
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| 1150.27 | Organic Chemistry (a.k.a. Chem 20) made me what I am today. | wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee | Wook like book with a W | Tue Sep 19 1995 22:45 | 19 |
| Tut, tut, uncommon wisdom would have lead you to the conclusion that I made
liberal use of the ubiquitous cyberodent to confound and bemuse even the
loikes of you, Dr. Dan.
BTW, my enjoyment of organic chemistry lectures was eclipsed only by my
overwhelming dread of organic chemistry lab. I still wonder if they will
ever synthesize a conjugated pi bond system in the form of a mobuis strip.
For all I know, the day they succeed will be the day the universe implodes
or worse, xfer it to a dimension with no chocolate! (Note how I once again
weave the original topic into an otherwise shameless rathole.)
As we used to say, "Aromatic chemistry stinks!"
Ah! I love the smell of benzaldehyde in the morning!
It smells like chemistry!
(Actually, it smells more like Marachino(sp?) cherries.)
Wook
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| 1150.28 | | GVPROD::BARTA | Gabriel Barta/CIO-GPS/Geneva | Fri Sep 22 1995 07:32 | 16 |
| Ah, how I enjoy picking nits. (By the way, for Europeans that should
be "splitting hairs".)
Wook's .-1:
Tut, tut, uncommon wisdom would have lead you to the conclusion that I made
led (not like "read")
I still wonder if they will
ever synthesize a conjugated pi bond system in the form of a mobuis strip.
Moebius
(Actually, it smells more like Marachino(sp?) cherries.)
Maraschino pronounced "maraskino"
Gabriel.
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| 1150.29 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Sun Sep 24 1995 20:50 | 3 |
| >Ah, how I enjoy picking nits.
Nitness counts.
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| 1150.30 | Split the hair to pick the nit | wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee | Wook like "Book" with a "W" | Sun Sep 24 1995 23:43 | 12 |
| Re: Gabriel
I've got to quit writing notes in the middle of the night.
Then, perhaps you'd stop righting notes in the middle of the day.
Re: Nitness
Yes, but it multiplies, too. Especially in the wee hours of GMT-4 or is it
GMT-5? Whatever.
Wook
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| 1150.31 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | DIGITAL=DEC: ReClaim TheName&Glory! | Mon Sep 25 1995 07:38 | 2 |
| ... and anent nits, ain't it spozed to be "decrenum"? :-)
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| 1150.32 | Nuts about nits? | JOKUR::MACDONALD | | Tue Nov 21 1995 12:32 | 2 |
| nits on de cranium, Dr. Dan?
Bruce
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