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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:12:09 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Michal F. Hanula" <frankie@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers
Message-ID:  <3EE6C839.E8FAC454@mindspring.com>
References:  <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> <20030610075617.GA7256@chihiro.leafy.idv.tw> <20030610112852.GK81410@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk>

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"Michal F. Hanula" wrote:
> > started with the letter N".  That, or "Steelypips", though
> > "Trurl" does have "URL" in it...
> 
> Where did ``Steelypips'' come from? Remind me of The Cyberiad,
> but I've only read it in Czech, so it really shouldn't.

The Cyberiad, English translation.  It's also in the fortunes
database on FreeBSD, because someone had taste.  8-).

> (The machine that can make anything beginning with N is a good idea. We
> could even force it to make Natrium if we had a latin locale)

If it could make anything beginning with 'N' in any language,
the it would be a machine that could make anything, since
everything can be said to begin with 'N' in *some* language...

-- Terry



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