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From: ian@wcwvax.UUCP (Ian Kemmish)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: The word 'TRIPOS'
Message-ID: <339@wcwvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 08:33:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 08:33:21 1985
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Sorry to be a net.fogey, but I can't let the assertion that
TRIPOS is named after Cambridge three-part degrees go past!

A tripos is a three-legged stool.  The reason that the TWO-PART
degrees at Cambridge are named after it is that that is what
the young hopefuls used to sit on during exams.   They were
probably a $%^& sight better than the rickety benches they
were still using five years ago!!