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[Spehro Pefhany]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:34:32 -0700, the renowned Charlie Edmondson
<edmondson@ieee.org> wrote:

Real Soon Now - An indeterminate period of time, between 2 days and 2
years. See also Vaporware...

From Byte, back in the 70s!

Charlie

Popularized by Byte columnist and sci-fi author Jerry Pournelle, IIRC.

A Wikipedia entry says that the term was originally used in the sci-fi
fanzine community.


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[Guy Macon]

Charlie Edmondson wrote:

Real Soon Now - An indeterminate period of time, between 2 days and 2
years. See also Vaporware...

From Byte, back in the 70s!

Nice to see that *someone* here is educated...

 

[Guy Macon]

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

Popularized by Byte columnist and sci-fi author Jerry Pournelle, IIRC.

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/special/flame.html

 

[keith]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:22:30 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

Charlie Edmondson wrote:

Real Soon Now - An indeterminate period of time, between 2 days and 2
years. See also Vaporware...

From Byte, back in the 70s!

Nice to see that *someone* here is educated...

I couldn't agree more!

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Keith