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Subject:Jargon query From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:23:25 PST
Hey,
A TECHWR-L subscriber is currently marooned at
the south pole (really) and needs a bit of help
with some jargon. I swear this isn't a joke.
Message follows:
>so-i am happily working away at south pole station and while it's a
>trip being here, we are inside a massive geodesic dome, we have
>limited references.
>could you post for me, the question of what does UNICOM stand for?
>it's an acronym that i believe is in use in the military and is used
>heavily by communications folks down here-but no one- and it is
>getting amusing now-can figure out what it means.
