My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly stood for Structured Programming Facility. Not content merely to add Interactive, the Hot Button Brigade (tech savvy cousins of the Political Correctness Police) also re-engineered 'SP' to System Productivity.
This is not be confused with recent, wholly unauthorized revisions to F.E.M.A. . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 09/22/2005 04:57:19 AM: > I suspect that's true of a lot of acronyms. > > A long time ago, I worked on a very obscure minicomputer, and all of > the utilities were named after the then-girlfriends of the > developers. The semantic contortions they used to turn those names > into acronyms were really amusing. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:00 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3 > > > > > > >I laughed at the people who > > pretended that it was better to have an acronym than have it mean > > "spool" > > ... > > > > I always thought it came first; then somebody said: “So, what > > do we make it stand for?”. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
