Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym

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From: squ... Matt Squires
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 1990 20:32

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In article <23...@tellab5.tellabs.com> to...@tellab5.tellabs.com (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
>In article <1990Mar26....@eng.umd.edu>, al...@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern) writes:
>> Don't forget the acronym TLA -- Three Letter Acronym.
>> DEC is the master (or a master) of TLA's, what with VAX, RSX, VMS, DCL,...
>> 
>>                              - -= Allon =- -

DEC is A master, I'm sure.  HP is another.  I'm sure most every company
has its own TLA's.

>Was DEC's use of TLA's influenced by the preponderance of 3 character op-codes,
>or did people create 3 character op-codes because DEC used TLA's.

Or maybe HP and DEC and others' TLA's have nothing to opcodes.

HP (or at least the site I worked at) has a wonderful booklet that they
give to new employees which explains all of the TLA's that abound at HP.
It is broken up by products (computers, instruments, etc) and
departments (finance, r&d, personnel, etc).  I remember it being about
15 pages long on 8.5 x 11 paper.  It came in handy when reading the HP
internal netnews.

Matt Squires
squ...@eecs.nwu.edu

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From: squ...@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Matt Squires)
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