Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: vuescan vs twain
From: "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:55:23 -0600
References: <b02000301-1031-E8CF48E018D111D8B416003065F48752@[10.0.1.2]> <3FB87DBD.6090605@aol.com> <3FB88D03.3040703@rhodos.dk>
 
Ruben:

>TWAIN is Technology Without An Interesting Name - Im not kidding 

I believe twain is from "Ne'er the twain shall meet".  It's not an acronym.
Later, somebody came up with that definition.  But that's not really what
the computer/scanner twain interface was named after.


Eric
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