Apology gladly accepted. In fact, I am just now devising a 555 - pulse generator for manually jogging my miniature coordinate drilling machine for PCB's (printed circuit boards) not even knowing that this is a MPG. This will be my exercizing and rehearsing machine for EMC2.
Peter Blodow Roland Jollivet schrieb: > My apologies. I do agree, and is actually a pet gripe on many technical > documents littered with acronyms. But when mails on this forum are littered > with stuff like; > #<t-wid+> = [[#<_t-len>] * 0.50000] one assumes MPG (Manual Pulse > Generator) is understood. It's mentioned at least once a week. > > Regards > Roland > > > On 25 March 2011 18:03, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 15:34 +0100, Peter Blodow wrote: >> >>> If I only knew what a MPG is - in Germany it means Max Planck >>> Gesellschaft which is one of the world's best research institutes... >>> Peter Blodow >>> >> It used to be good form to append the fully worded term to the acronym >> with the first use of each acronym in a document, such as: "I like knobs >> on my MPG (Manual Pulse Generator) as many commercial MPG's have". It's >> a little more work, but it comes down to whether one wants to be >> understood by the intended audience or not. >> -- >> Kirk Wallace >> http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ >> http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html >> California, USA >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
