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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:39:35 +0000
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On 11/01/2025 19:52, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:04:37 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> Not a hundred different 'diverse'  screw threads depending...
> 
> 
> Memories of a misguided youth working on British sports cars...

Or American ones.

We had Whitworth BA and BSF, you had UNC and UNF and everyone else had 
metric

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