On 7/29/2014 11:09 AM, Hall, Keven wrote:
I imagine a more fanciful set of "rules" was responsible for the single-letter 
abbreviations of the system commands.

P is the last letter of STOP; it's where it stops and the "p" sound is 
distinct...

Haha. Or, simply working forward alphabetically, 'S' was already taken with START, 'T' was already taken with SET, 'O' was already taken with LOG, and 'P' was the only letter left. :D

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