On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:38:07 -0400, Dan Greiner wrote: Same here. Before I worked for Amdahl, I know one guy who referred to it as "Prinkiples".
>For the nearly 30 years that Amdahl competed for IBM's mainframe turf, many >within Amdahl referred to the Principles of Operation using the proper >initialism of PoO (yes, initialism is a word). As IBMers generally referred to >the document as the PoPs, this continued to be a friendly poke in the eye from >one mainframe competitor to another. > >During a technical presentation that I was doing in Kansas City, one attendee >took strong objection to my terminology — asserting that I was "talking dirty" >by using a scatological term for programming Scripture. After explaining the >concepts of abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms, and mnemonics ad nauseum — >and why PoO was the proper term to use — she conceded that perhaps I wouldn't >burn in hell for all eternity ... just for a few millennia. > >PoO is still my choice.
