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yyono
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isis
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Nov 11 09:50 UTC 2000 |
g'day friends
i'm a database administ, experienced with ISIS from UNESCO, i'd like discuss
and share knowledge with anyone else, like to make friends and mail each other
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mdw
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response 1 of 19:
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Nov 12 01:05 UTC 2000 |
Isn't ISIS an operating system that ran on intel development hardware,
like the MCS-80 and MCS-85?
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remmers
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response 2 of 19:
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Nov 12 01:12 UTC 2000 |
ISIS is also the name of the automated registration system in use
at Eastern Michigan University.
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scg
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response 3 of 19:
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Nov 12 03:30 UTC 2000 |
It's also an IP routing protocol.
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hematite
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response 4 of 19:
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Nov 12 04:58 UTC 2000 |
I thought Isis was a goddess in Egyptian lore...
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remmers
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response 5 of 19:
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Nov 12 12:48 UTC 2000 |
This is true. Isis was the goddess of love, sexuality, ceremonies,
health and healing, and immortality.
People seem to like to name computer-related things after ancient
creatures of legend. Other examples are Kerberos (originally a
three-headed canine who guarded the entrance to hell, now a
protocol for secure transmission of information) and Cobol
(originally the Phonecian god of markets and currency, now a
business-oriented computer language).
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danr
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response 6 of 19:
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Nov 12 18:05 UTC 2000 |
Hmmmm. I never knew that about Cobol.
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ashke
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response 7 of 19:
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Nov 12 21:37 UTC 2000 |
Actually, it stands for COmmon Business Orientented Language...but like most
other things, I suppsoe they decided to make the acroim stand for
something...CBOL is a little much. On the Mid-Range systems, RPG (a form of
abbreviated cobol) stands for Report program Generator.
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brighn
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response 8 of 19:
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Nov 12 22:24 UTC 2000 |
Can I get a source for the allegation that Cobol was a God? I've never heard
that, and a casual search on the Web (including
http://www.cybercomm.net/~grandpa/mideast.html, which looks reliable and
fairly comprehensive) turns up nothing.
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janc
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response 9 of 19:
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Nov 13 00:09 UTC 2000 |
John is pulling your legs.
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brighn
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response 10 of 19:
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Nov 13 00:18 UTC 2000 |
the bit about Kerberos is correct, though.
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remmers
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response 11 of 19:
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Nov 13 11:51 UTC 2000 |
So is the one about Isis. Two out of three ain't bad, eh?
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ashke
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response 12 of 19:
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Nov 13 14:34 UTC 2000 |
<grumbles>
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mooncat
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response 13 of 19:
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Nov 13 22:16 UTC 2000 |
<laughs> Well done Remmers!
(and RPG stands for Role-Playing Game, Sunny. :p)
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ashke
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response 14 of 19:
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Nov 14 17:09 UTC 2000 |
WOO HOO!!!! I got paid over $30 grand a year to play Roll Playing Games? Why
didn't anyone TELL ME! I'll go back now...I swear!!!
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mooncat
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response 15 of 19:
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Nov 14 19:30 UTC 2000 |
(role... not roll.. role as in the character you play, not roll as in
roll the dice... though some people confuse that concepts <thinks of a
few online players she knows>)
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ashke
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response 16 of 19:
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Nov 14 19:45 UTC 2000 |
<laughs about all the online players she knows> oh well, you gotta do what
you gotta do!
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mooncat
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response 17 of 19:
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Nov 15 15:36 UTC 2000 |
Well... <grins>
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ashke
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response 18 of 19:
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Nov 15 15:52 UTC 2000 |
Oh wait! I'm sorry! The exception! <bows humbly to anne, the player who
KNOWS what she is doing online....> Oh mistress, when you come and bless us
with your presence online and kick the snot out of those who don't know what
they are doing...oh joy, oh bliss...
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mooncat
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response 19 of 19:
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Nov 16 20:52 UTC 2000 |
I'm ummm... working on it...
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