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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.flame
Subject: Re: Prince's Original Writing Style
Message-ID: <212@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 15:37:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 15:37:40 1985
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Summary: 

In article <745@udenva.UUCP> awinterb@udenva.UUCP (Art Winterbauer) writes:
>
>Sounds to me like he's a regular poster to the net.
>
That is more to the point.. HOW QUICKLY THEY 4GET !!!
The particular writing style was invented long time ago, to use
with anon programs, to talk between terminals, originating @ MIT,
if I'm not mistaken..
	c u	see you
	o&o	over and out
	4	for
	b.	bye
	r	are
	@	at	(naturally..)

These r some examples.. If I could find an old documentation
on "computerese" I had back in the days of DEC-10 hacking, I will
post more.. 



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