Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+MULTI+2.11; site wcwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!wcwvax!ian 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 Article-I.D.: wcwvax.339 Posted: Fri Sep 13 08:33:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:30:18 EDT Organization: Whitechapel Computer Works, London Lines: 8 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!!