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Description: A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people talk about 200 milliLampsons. Butler Lampson talks at 1000. [Hacker Jargon dictionary]
/mil'*-lamp`sn/ /n./ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
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| Date | Creation Date: 29-aug-1998 Expiration Date: 28-aug-2016 |