To make it even better, the OS for that minicomputer (see below) was called "Disk Management Facility". I'll leave that one to your imaginations.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Skip Robinson > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3 > > > My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly stood for > Structured Programming Facility. Not content merely to add > Interactive, the > Hot Button Brigade (tech savvy cousins of the Political > Correctness Police) > also re-engineered 'SP' to System Productivity. > > This is not be confused with recent, wholly unauthorized revisions to > F.E.M.A. > > . > . > . > JO.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on > 09/22/2005 > 04:57:19 AM: > > > 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. > > > -------------------------------------------------------- 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
