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

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From: erc... Sam Wilson
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 11:15

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The following is reproduced with no permission at all from 'Backbytes' -
the irreverent back page of the UK weekly 'Computing':

   As if they didn't have enough problems hard-pressed DEC distributors
   are having to work overtime keeping up with a torrent of new
   DECspeak. 

   At a recent thrash, one major distributor was overheared compaling to
   a fellow-sufferer, 'The trouble with DEC is they've got a fixation
   about TLAs - Three Letter Acronyms.  But I hear they're about to
   bring out an FLA.'

   'Four Letter Acronym?' asked his colleague, clearly an innocent soul. 

   'Sort of,' was the reply.  'It's a Field-upgradeable three Letter
   Acronym.'

Sam Wilson

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From: erc...@castle.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson)
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Subject: Re: TLAs (was Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym)
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Date: 10 Apr 90 11:15:22 GMT
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