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Re: [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet)

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Subject Re: [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet)
Date 2012-05-08 07:43 -0700
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On 5/8/2012 5:32 AM, Lew wrote:

> FWIW, "markspace" is a quintessentially geekish handle, referring as it
> does to the old days of teletypes. Full props.


As far as I know, it's much older than that.  In telecommunications it 
originally referred to Morse code, literally the marks and spaces on a 
telegraph tape.

More recently it was still used in various signaling to refer to encoded 
1's and 0' in electronic transmissions like the old phone modem encoding 
(300 baud, 1200 baud, etc.).  I'm not sure what the current state of the 
art is, since I haven't done anything that low-level since my course 
work 20 years ago.


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Packages and Reflection in an Applet "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com> - 2012-05-05 13:25 +0800
  Re: Packages and Reflection in an Applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-05 17:30 -0400
    Re: Packages and Reflection in an Applet "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com> - 2012-05-07 20:47 +0800
      Re: Packages and Reflection in an Applet Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-08 22:14 -0400
  Re: Packages and Reflection in an Applet markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-05 14:45 -0700
    Re: Packages and Reflection in an Applet "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com> - 2012-05-07 20:54 +0800
      [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-08 05:32 -0700
        Re: [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet) markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-08 07:43 -0700
          Re: [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet) Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-05-08 17:02 +0200
          Re: [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet) Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-08 09:26 -0700

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