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


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