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Re: Neuron chips for robotics

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From: Colin Bridgewater
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:48
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demers@cs.ucsd.edu (David DeMers) writes:
>OK, I give up.  I came up with two dozen or so 3-word phrases
>that have LON as an acronym, but none seem to be satisfactory
>for this thread.  What's a "LON"?

LON is short for Local Operating Network.... It's a proprietary term coined
by Echelon (the US company set up by one of the founders of Apple) to make
their product instantly memorable. Apart, that is, from the initial costs ($)
of buying into the technology....

Colin

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Subject: Re: Neuron chips for robotics
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