FWIW, the NY Times style guide does not call for capitalizing long acronyms:
Why Nascar, Not NASCAR? Auto racing fans chafe at our rules on acronyms. Here they are, from our stylebook: acronyms. An acronym is a word formed from the first letter (or letters) of each word in a series: NATO from North Atlantic Treaty Organization; radar from radio detection and ranging. (Unless pronounced as a word, an abbreviation is not an acronym.) When an acronym serves as a proper name and exceeds four letters, capitalize only the first letter: Unesco; Unicef. We limit the uppercasing to four letters because longer strings of capitals are distracting and tend to jump off the page. -- http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/faqs-on-style-2/ The trademark issue is separate. IBM may have a TM that specifically claims all caps. Style guides like the above drive corporate IP lawyers nuts. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 7:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Alleged mainframe breach to add to the list Dana Mitchell wrote: >The offical name now is 'IBM i for Power Systems'. Current IBM Power8 hardware can run IBM i, AIX and Linux LPARs all concurrently under PowerVM on machines from a 2u rack mounted server all the way up to Enterprise level E880 with 192 cores (8xSMT) and 32TB of memory. Also, IBM now offers lower cost, Linux only 'L' models of some of these machines. >http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/index.html?LNK=browse *tsk* And that page gets it wrong-POWER is an acronym, should always be capped. In the old days, IBM had trademark police who would have fixed that! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
