Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!jim From: jim@mcvax.UUCP (Jim McKie) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Who/What is a NIMROD? Message-ID: <406@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 08:17:44 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.406 Posted: Thu Jan 10 08:17:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:47:40 EST References: <191@topaz.ARPA> <412@grendel.UUCP> Reply-To: jim@mcvax.UUCP (Jim McKie) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 12 According to my Oxford dictionary: Nimrod. Great-grandson of Noah, traditional founder of the Babylonian dynasty, noted as a great hunter (Gen. 10: 8-10). The planes used by the RAF to patrol the North Atlantic and to monitor and hunt Soviet shipping/submarines are also called 'Nimrods'. Jim McKie mcvax!jim