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abbreviation
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s of metric nomenclature used in the sciences Stanford Stanford University
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Sun Sun Microsystems TMRC Some MITisms go back as far as the Tech Model
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Railroad Club (TMRC) at MIT c. 1960. Material marked TMRC is from An
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Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language , originally compiled by Pete
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Samson in 1959 UCLA University of California, Los Angeles UK the United
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Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) Usenet See the Usenet
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entry WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute, site of a very active community
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of PDP-10 hackers during the 1970s WWW The World-Wide-Web. XEROX PARC
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XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center, site of much pioneering research in user
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interface design and networking Yale Yale University Other etymology s such
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as Unix and PDP-10 refer to technical cultures surrounding specific
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operating systems, processors, or other environments. The fact that a term
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is labelled with any one of these s does not necessarily mean its use is
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confined to that culture. In particular, many terms labelled MIT and
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Stanford are in quite general use. We have tried to give some indication of
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the distribution of speakers in the usage notes; however, a number of
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factors mentioned in the introduction conspire to make these indications
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less definite than might be desirable. A few new definitions attached to
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entries are marked [proposed]. These are usually generalizations suggested
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by editors or Usenet respondents in the process of commenting on previous
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definitions of those entries. These are not represented as established
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jargon. Prev Up Next Chapter10.Pronunciation Guide Home Chapter12.
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