1,500 ppm threshold breached

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vwdan replied

25 July 2014, 14:47
Originally posted by VectraMan View Post

I thought it was joke name so they could have twain drivers.

According to Wikipedia:

The word TWAIN is not officially an acronym, but it is a backronym. The official website notes that "the word TWAIN is from Kipling's The Ballad of East and West — '...and never the twain shall meet...' — reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None was selected, but the entry Technology Without an Interesting Name continues to haunt the standard.
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VectraMan replied

25 July 2014, 14:36
Originally posted by pjclarke View Post

Or scanners. Is it true, or an urban myth, that TWAIN stands for 'Technology Without An Interesting Name'

I thought it was joke name so they could have twain drivers.
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darmstadt replied

25 July 2014, 14:26
Originally posted by vwdan View Post

True as far as I'm aware. I also like the originals of DOS (Disk Operating System), originally QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System)!

Although most people think of DOS as a PC OS, it was originally a mainframe OS and is now known as vVSE: DOS/360 and successors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Same with VM, most people think of Java VM or VMWare but the original was also a mainframe operating system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
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vwdan replied

25 July 2014, 13:52
Originally posted by pjclarke View Post

Or scanners. Is it true, or an urban myth, that TWAIN stands for 'Technology Without An Interesting Name'

True as far as I'm aware. I also like the originals of DOS (Disk Operating System), originally QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System)!
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pjclarke replied

25 July 2014, 13:50
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

I think this was going to be a really interesting article on printers and photocopiers

Or scanners. Is it true, or an urban myth, that TWAIN stands for 'Technology Without An Interesting Name'
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SimonMac replied

25 July 2014, 13:21
Pull Per Minute?

It will come off at that rate!
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northernladuk replied

25 July 2014, 13:20
I think this was going to be a really interesting article on printers and photocopiers
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Bunk replied

25 July 2014, 13:20
1500 pages per minute? That's fast
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pjclarke started a topic 1,500 ppm threshold breached

25 July 2014, 13:14
1,500 ppm threshold breached

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