Bill Fairchild writes:
. . . Not wishing to emphasize the inexpensive aspect of their new
products, the vendors replaced "inexpensive" with "independent" so the
acronym RAID could be retained without losing any sales when customers
might ask "Why is your Redundant Array of Disks not very Inexpensive?"
The alternative of a RAID became known as a Single Large Expensive Disk
(SLED).
and this is just one example---others are not far to seek---of a useful,
more general principle. When IBM or another vendor jacks up an acronym in
order to put something else under it, suspect the worst: The motive for
doing so is seldom to clarify: it is almost always to obfuscate.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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