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To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy), chat@hub.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD io 
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:06:41 +1000
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From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:33:08 -0700 (PDT)  "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote:

> > Speaking for the rest of us rocket scientists...who's BSAE?
> 
> 	BSAE--bachelor of science, aeronautical engineering??

The original author (whose attribution has been lost, thankfully)
claimed two "BS" degrees in engineering in private email.

I quite agree his degrees must be BS(*). :)

Giles

*I'm sure there is an Australian slang dictionary *somewhere* on the
Web, but a broad hint is that the B stands for Bull.  IBM missed a
similar problem with their "RS/6000". :)