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to: Robert Pearson
from: Richard Town
date: 1996-07-25 18:08:06
subject: Re: Class 2.0

-=> Quoting Robert Pearson to Stuart Johnson <=-

 SJ> Which dumb git decided to have two different command sets, one
 SJ> called 2 and the other called 2.0 ???/
 RP> Rockwell.  They chose to call their defacto-standard "Class 2".

 RP> Of course, when the real standard came out, it didn't exactly match the
 RP> "Class 2" that Rockwell was using.  So to distinguish the
REAL STANDARD
 RP> (which the standards committee was originally going to call
"Class 2")
 RP> from the pseudo-standard that Rockwell made, the "real
one" was called
 RP> "Class 2.0".

And who was in the Chair when Class2.0 came out?
Methinx it somehow _wasn't_ Rockwell :-))

rgdZ
Richard

... just made to be different

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