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

From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: [OT] Poster's name (Was: Packages and Reflection in an Applet)
Date	2012-05-08 09:26 -0700
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On Tue, 08 May 2012 07:43:35 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote:

>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.

     It was 20 milliamp.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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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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