> On 3/17/25 00:24, Tom Lane wrote: > > Note the lack of any upper case. Shortly later we reverse-engineered > > an acronym for it [2], with the winner being Tom Lockhart's > > > > The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique
I (very easily) found a reference to the GSM tool: https://linux.die.net/man/1/toast At the bottom, you're directed to write to Jutta at UT Berlin in case of bugs. Searching for that you'll eventually arrive at http://quut.com/berlin/toast.html which points out that this is Jutta Degener, currently of Sunnyvale, CA: https://quut.com/credits.p3 On 2025-Mar-17, Jan Wieck wrote: > Which made it into an acronym. Acronyms are typically capitalized to > distinguish them from ordinary words. However, we do stop capitalizing acronyms once they get in common enough. The example of LASER (originall acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation") was already mentioned, but there's also RADAR ("radio detection and ranging"), which is particularly useful in this discussion because its wikipedia page says The term radar has since entered English and other languages as an anacronym, a common noun, losing all capitalization. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "I apologize for the confusion in my previous responses. There appears to be an error." (ChatGPT)
