I don't see acronyms in different industries a problem. The ones that get me are within IBM's own website. I can't remember specific's. More than once, I read something that used a well known z/OS acronym. Very confusing until you realize it's the same acronym but from a different area.
Jon Perryman >________________________________ > From: John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> > > > >I don't think the etiology of an acronym matters much or for long. >COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language, but who >cares. > >Indeed, it is often better not to look under the hood/bonnet. Consider > >GRS >Global Resource Serialization >Gamma Ray Spectrometer >Gender Reassignment Surgery > >DCBE >Data Control Block Extension >Double Contrast Barium Enema > >DASD >Direct Access Storage Device >Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense >Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction > >etc., etc., ad nauseam. Even the structured ones like BSAM and QSAM >can be problematic. One of my teenagers, making what she described as >a 'plausible inference' from the existence of this pair and that of >BDAM, asked me, with guile, about the properties of QDAM. > >John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
