From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: clavoie@bmed.mcgill.ca
Cc: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?
Date: 25 Jul 2002 12:08:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027595314.9488.42.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207242318.49536.clavoie@bmed.mcgill.ca>
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 04:18, Christian Lavoie wrote:
> On July 24, 2002 10:43 pm, jw schultz wrote:
> > I think it was Aristotle who theorized the existance of the
> > atom. He described it by discussing an apple. You can cut
> > an apple in half. each piece you can cut in half again.
> > Eventually you would get to a piece, invisibly small, that
> > could not be cut in half. That was his atom.
>
> I think you're referring to Democritus, but I can't find the reference in my
> books...
Leucippus of Miletus, about 440BC. Democritus was his pupil who refined
and extended it along with him.
Can we go back to the topic now
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 22:33 Rob Landley
2002-07-19 4:38 ` Kelledin
2002-07-19 4:38 ` Larry McVoy
2002-07-19 4:45 ` CaT
2002-07-18 23:34 ` Rob Landley
2002-07-19 5:40 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-19 0:21 ` Rob Landley
2002-07-19 12:38 ` Kelledin
2002-07-19 13:09 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-07-19 7:00 ` dalecki
2002-07-19 19:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-07-19 20:17 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-20 1:06 ` Kelsey Hudson
2002-07-26 14:15 ` [OT] Why Stallman says GNU/Linux (was Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for?) Rob Landley
2002-07-19 14:20 ` Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? yodaiken
2002-07-20 14:22 ` Georg Nikodym
2002-07-20 14:31 ` yodaiken
2002-07-22 13:10 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-07-20 6:01 ` John Kacur
2002-07-19 4:52 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-22 22:23 ` Joe DiMartino
2002-07-22 22:49 ` Hiten Pandya
2002-07-25 0:24 ` Daniel Mose
2002-07-25 1:16 ` Andrew Rodland
2002-07-25 2:43 ` jw schultz
2002-07-25 3:18 ` Christian Lavoie
2002-07-25 5:30 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-07-25 11:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-25 6:03 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-26 8:24 ` jbradford
2002-07-28 9:01 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-04 15:11 ` Gert Menke
2002-07-26 12:54 ` Rob Landley
2002-07-25 18:06 ` Kevin Buhr
2002-07-26 23:39 ` Daniel Mose
2002-07-19 5:08 Mohamed Ghouse , Gurgaon
2002-07-19 13:21 Nicholas Berry
2002-07-19 13:32 Jesse Pollard
2002-07-30 20:07 ` Mark H. Wood
[not found] <fa.m2aun2v.khulp2@ifi.uio.no>
2002-07-20 2:20 ` Kevin Buhr
2002-07-20 2:51 Kevin Puetz
2002-07-25 13:54 Jesse Pollard
2002-07-30 20:58 Jesse Pollard
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