On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:58:08 +0000, Bob Shannon wrote: >> And I'd heard SHARE Collection of Inebriates, Drunkards, and Sots > >That's the definition I'd heard, but I don't think anyone really knows what >SCIDS stands for. > >Q: What does SHARE stand for? >A: SHARE is not an acronym. It stood for "sharing" information. > Forty years ago, I heard "Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort", perhaps even from an IBM FE. I thought it was prevalent. But it might have been a retronym.
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