In my more than thirty years of program management and contract work in industry it always meant either "to be determined" or "to be defined". A little Google searching (use the keywords "acronym TBD") shows "to be determined" as the dominant interpretation:
http://www.abbreviations.com/TBD http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_the_acronym_TBD_mean http://www.ask.com/questions-about/What-Does-TBD-Means http://www.acronymfinder.com/Military-and-Government/TBD.html http://www.acronymfinder.com/TBD.html 73, Dave AB7E On 5/26/2012 12:13 AM, Bill Tubbs wrote: > Okay, you can have "to be done.". I have to add "to be determined" to my "to > be developed" which is in all the military planning manuals I have (and have > read). I can't seem to find "to be done" as a common initialism, even on a > routine internet search, but if you've used it then it must be ok ;-) > > Yep, silly topic to continue. > > Hey, how 'bout those KX3s?! > > Bill > WK6A > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 25, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Phil Hystad<phys...@mac.com> wrote: > >> A silly thing to debate -- but, it has always meant "To Be Done". In fact, >> I have never known any other definition in the world of computer programming >> where it is often used as a comment to a section of code. So, at least for >> programming, To Be Done is it. Always has been since I started programming >> in 1965 (and, I am still programming and I still put TBD in code comments >> every now and then). >> >> But, a slight comment nod to Ron (AC7AC). I think that TBD is more >> accurately called an "initialism" and not an acronym. An acronym is a word >> formed by letters of a phrase or sentence such as sonar or radar. Thus, an >> acronym can be pronounced and used as a word. An initialism is a set of >> letters that are usually not pronounced or they receive a pronunciation from >> common practice. For example, CEO, HTML, and SQL are all initialisms. And, >> SQL has a common practice of pronunciation of Sequel although technically >> that is not correct and I believe the SQL standard stipulates this. Sequel >> is actually the name of a similar language developed by IBM that preceded >> SQL. >> >> Enough debate there is a CW contest to going on. >> >> 73, phil, K7PEH >> >> >> On May 25, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Bill Tubbs wrote: >> >>> Since I was a kid in the 60s TBD has meant "To Be Developed", particularly >>> in the military. Never heard it as "to be done" but I suppose there are >>> always regional differences. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On May 25, 2012, at 1:40 PM, "Ron D'Eau Claire"<r...@cobi.biz> wrote: >>> >>>> Actually, I have for half a century known TBD to be an acronym for "To Be >>>> Done". In this case the development of the code is likely complete. What >>>> remains to be done is to integrate it with the rest of the KX3 code, test >>>> and debug any unintended interactions. >>>> >>>> 73, Ron AC7AC >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> >>>> >>>> TBD...acronym from "to be deremined" I think, check if you have latest >>>> firmware loaded on it >>>> >>>> >>>> VE3GNO Daniel >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
