On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:53:34 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: > > > >If only we in SMP/E had that kind of foresight (what, 20+ years ago?) we > >would not have used "HFS" as an element type. Of course this goes > >beyond documentation, so I suspect we'll be stuck with ++HFS for the > >foreseeable future. > > > There are many cases in which an abbreviation is retained for computer > use after the term is deprecated otherwise. I think of Sun's retaining > "yp*" utilities where "yp" originated as an abbreviation of a phrase that > Sun found was proscribed by trademark rights. > > Stick with "HFS" and put a historical note in a glossary. > ​True. Or just disassociate HFS the idea (Hierarchical File System) from HFS the implementation of that idea. zFS is still an HFS contains (by my first definition). > > -- gil > > -- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
