Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)

[Jules Richardson]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
>> Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>> Lots of acronymitis back then.  Still a lot now, but users have had
>>> more time to absorb some of it.
>>
>> At least folk don't try to turn it back into a word, like they insist 
>> on doing with some acronyms (e.g. "sequel", ugh). We could have ended 
>> up with "puccumsia" :-)
> 
> Are you aware that the acronym "sequel" pre-dates the abbreviation "SQL" 
> by a significant amount of time?

Interesting - and no! So did it also originally stand for something (semantic 
query language, maybe? :) or was it just a name picked out of a hat, or was 
there some other reason it was given that name?

cheers

J.