On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:09:24 EDT, Craig & Nancy Williams <cwilliams97@charter.net> said: > ......where does BOF come from? I understand the meaning but why is it used > here? A bunch of techies all interested in XML at the same place at the same time would probably be considered a flock together of birds of a feather, no? I think the usage dates back at least as far as early SHARE/GUIDE/COMMON meetings - Eric Raymond's Jargon File has an entry saying it dates to SHARE in the early 60s, but I suspect it goes back to the IBM7094 in the late 50s... http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/BOF.html If anybody has better etymology on the term, please let Eric know. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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