Extremely Off Topic -- but!

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Thu Oct 23 00:31:11 UTC 2014


On 10/22/2014 05:21 PM, Roger issued this missive:
> On 23/10/14 09:16, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to
>>> Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD). I
>>> suggest you look for Yosemite-specific help on the Apple forums.
>> Isn't LUV a mispelled LUG?
> LUV (Linux Users Victoria) is a historical term goes back about 3
> years.  Apologies for confusion.

Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the
nomenclature for the primary voltage supply to a chip, but in this case
it meant "Valley Computer Club". This was when we used to wire-wrap our
own circuit boards and the Zilog Z80 was brand-spankin' new!

	"Geeze! It runs at 4 MHz? And you have 32K of static RAM? Wow!"

Ah, memories!
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