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TLAs (was Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym)

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From: rbr... Russell Brown
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 1990 13:00
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	We obviously need a larger alphabet, since there are nowhere near
enough three letter acronyms to go around.  After all, 26^3 is only 17576,
and that's not even enough to give a TLA to each VAX machine instruction,
let alone cover all of the commercial and military applications.  Maybe we
should follow U*ix's lead and make acronyms case sensitive.  That will buy
us a factor of eight in the number of distinct TLAs.

	This is a serious problem.  Why, only last week, I spent an extremely
frustrating 30 minutes or so trying to get cash from the neighborhood
Alternating Turing Machine.  And as if that wasn't enough, when I got back
to the office, my buddy William came in and forced me to remember the proof
that the second order theory of one's successor could be decided by an
Automated Teller Machine.  It's enough to drive a man MADD.
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Russell G. Brown            | these opinions are reflected in full by /dev/null 
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From: rbr...@sjofn.cs.cornell.edu (Russell Brown)
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Subject: TLAs (was Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym)
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