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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>milliLampson</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="middle-out-implementation.html" title="middle-out implementation"/><link rel="next" href="minor-detail.html" title="minor detail"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">milliLampson</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="minor-detail.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="milliLampson"/><dt xmlns="" id="milliLampson"><b>milliLampson</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mil'@<40>lamp`sn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200
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milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems
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implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people
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speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely
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disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them
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in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer
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of the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a>) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only
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talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as
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his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="minor-detail.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">middle-out implementation<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>minor detail</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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