From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Tue 21 Aug 2001 - 13:58:57 IST
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:17:30AM -0400 or thereabouts, Wesley Darlington wrote:
>
> Just because the notation `/8' hadn't been devised when BBN said "we'll
> have that one, that one and ... that one" doesn't mean the terminology
> cannot be retrospectively applied. It's a bit like saying that ...
> (frantically trying to think of a suitable analogy but failing) ...
> that the world's first <something> wasn't actually a <something>
> because the word <something> hadn't been coined then... :-)
Err, Wheel? Gin and Tonic? Power Hungry Monopolistic Organisation?
Conor
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