From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 18 21:21:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18956 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 21:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18934 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 21:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24737; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:20:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980619142023.36710@welearn.com.au> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:20:23 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: stephen farrell Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clusters, Distributed File Systems and the like. References: <199806180307.LAA27243@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <87k96fkw1z.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <87k96fkw1z.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu>; from stephen farrell on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:28:56AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:28:56AM -0500, stephen farrell wrote: > Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth writes: > > > performance to be within cooee of the SP2s, but it's an interesting > ^^^^^ > Within what?? In the languages of several of the nations of the Eastern part of the Australian continent, Koori (rhymes with jury) was was the word for "person". When people were walking in the bush and wondered if anyone else was around, they would shout "Kooooooo-RI?" and the call if heard would be returned. When Europeans heard this, they missed the "r" and interpreted it as a nonsense sound devised for its carrying qualities. After all, the word wasn't in their dictionaries. The Europeans began using it themselves as a general call over long distances, pronouncing and spelling it as cooee. Originally, "within cooee" meant close enough that "cooee" could be heard from that distance. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message