Date:  Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:34:50 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject: Re: Another WOTY



Re "legacy" -- thanks for the input (I still use a Radio Shack Model II, 64K).

I've been a reader of PC Magazine for about 8 years, but don't recall seeing

the term until this past Fall, when it suddenly started showing up in articles

about software apps that would or would not run under Windows 95, or hardware

that lacked enough memory or did not have drivers that would work with Win 95.

So while it obviously does not qualify as a WOTY, lexicographers and linguists

should leap on this as an opportunity to identify a(n) historical point when

the term acquired a specifically narrowed meaning.



--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)