Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym

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From: rc...
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 1990 01:18

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I suspect that assembly languages have three letter mnemonics is because HAL
(there's another one) in 2001 used them all the time.  But maybe it's the other
way around...

Maybe they're a hold over from the Depression: WPA, TVA, etc.  Or is it the
entertainment industry invading the computer industry: CBS, NBC, ABC, MGM,
FOX.  The post office (ZIP)?

Whatever.  I have to get cash from the ATM.

Randall Cook

rc...@eagle.wesleyan.edu

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Subject: Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym
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