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From: bb07779 AT bingsuns DOT cc DOT binghamton DOT edu (Lars Damerow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: BSP engines(was: Re: Allegro 2.0 beta uploaded to x2ftp ...)
Date: 25 Mar 1996 19:00:33 GMT
Organization: Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
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A.Appleyard (A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
:   nicolas AT jupiter DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr (Eric NICOLAS) wrote
: (Subject: Re: Allegro 2.0 beta uploaded to x2ftp (CHECK IT OUT)):-
: > .... But what is a BSP engine ?????

:   It stands for `Brrrrrm, Smoke, Phew!!', i.e. a badly adjusted diesel engine.

:   Or, more seriously, can't someone please keep the initialitis and alphabet
: soup under control? Haven't things got names any more?

It stands for binary spatial partitioning.  I agree, there are way too 
many acronyms out there... but at least they save some typing IMHO ;).  
(imagine files like "binary_spatial_partition_tree.cc" !) :O

.... Lars Damerow
bb07779 AT bingsuns DOT cc DOT binghamton DOT edu
"If I am not here, I am likely to be somewhere else."

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