On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:29:11 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>“Civic” was clearly derived from CVCC... > >According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVCC, the CVCC was first introduced >on the 1975 >ED1 engine in the Civic. There is mention in that article that "The first >engine to be installed >with the CVCC approach for testing was the single-cylinder, 300 cc Honda EA >engine used in >the Honda N600 hatchback in January 1970." but no mention that it was ever put >into >production. > >The claim that the name "Civic" derived from "CVCC" strikes me as revisionist >history. And the >notion that it could have been called CiViCC is just plain silly. companies >don't pre-announce >new technology in that way. If either of you have evidence that the name >Civic" was derived >from the name of the engine technology that was then under development, I'd >like to see it. > Or, it could be a backronym. The Civic was in production, marketed, and trademarked before a clever automotive engineer noticed that the consonants formed an initialism for one of many possible descriptions of a cylinder technology.
An example of a backronym in our field is SPOOL which I recall being used for deferred output prior to OS/360's co-opting it as an initialism. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
