On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:09:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > SAS the statistics company? > SAS the Scandinavian Airlines? > SAS the School of Advanced Study? http://www.sas.ac.uk/ > SAS the Surfers Against Sewage? http://www.sas.org.uk/ > SAS the Special Air Service? > SAS the Society for Applied Spectroscopy? > SAS the Society for Applied Sociology? > SAS the Society for Amateur Scientists? http://www.sas.org/ > SAS the Singapore American School? http://www.sas.edu.sg/ > SAS the Static Analysis Symposium? > > Ah ha!!! > > About the 40th Google hit is "Serial Attached SCSI". > > Talk about an ambiguous TLA!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS > has an even longer list...
I think they should have put their acronym into google before accepting it. :) Even SSA (serial scsi attach) might have had less conflict, although certainly not none. Too late now, they already have standards and nice logos and such done. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

