I suspect that's true of a lot of acronyms. A long time ago, I worked on a very obscure minicomputer, and all of the utilities were named after the then-girlfriends of the developers. The semantic contortions they used to turn those names into acronyms were really amusing.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3 > > > >I laughed at the people who > pretended that it was better to have an acronym than have it mean > "spool" > ... > > I always thought it came first; then somebody said: “So, what > do we make it stand for?”. > > -teD > > In God we Trust! > All others bring data! > -- W. Edwards Deming > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
