Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:30:19 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grok ? Message-ID: <199703192130.OAA06363@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199703191732.KAA13800@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Mar 19, 97 10:32:26 am
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% "grok" isn't in my vocabulary. I assume it means "support" or "handle"
> It's from a Heinlein novel (perhaps _Stranger in a Strange Land_? Sorry,
Yes, from _Stranger in a Strange Land_, from the character Michael
Smith, who was raised by Martians. It is a Martian word, apparently,
adapted for human speech.
> I can't recall things that I've read that long ago... Maybe _I will Fear
> No Evil_?). Basically, it means "understand" (though in the Heinlein
> context it meant far more...)
It means to understand fully, in the context of the thing being
understood. In this case, a drive that "groks" tagged commands would
both implement them *and* do something useful with them.
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