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

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 00:14:19 CDT 2009


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?

Peace...  Sridhar


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