It does sound reasonable, but there are some caveats: First, many "acronyms" in our world are merely names -- the underlying words mean virtually nothing (e.g IMS, CICS, TSO, ISPF...). You'd need to describe what they actually are as well, for it to be something better than mere pedantry.
Also, MVS stands for "Multiple Virtual Storage", I believe. So, a clean sacking (notwithstanding my first point). sas On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:40 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, that advise sounds reasonable, although I will confess that I > don't always follow it! > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Charles Mills <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 5:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Ask the experts about running things > > I hired a tech writer once who had been taught in school that you should > introduce every acronym the first time you used it: > > "Whizbang/390 runs on any current release of Multiple Virtual Systems > (MVS) ..." > > And wanted to argue me into the ground on the point. I let him go on the > 29th day of his probationary period. > > Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
