Pronouncing acronyms (was Re: DEC acronyms)

[arcarlini at iee.org]

Tony Duell [ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk] wrote:
> And the possibly aporcryphal extension that the hackers
> got their
> own back in the naming of the Failed UniBus Address Register in the
> VAX11/780 -- only after manuals had been printed and shipped did the
> suits realise what FUBAR stood for :-)

I have no personal knowledge, but I find it incredibly difficult to
believe that FUBAR was anything other than deliberate :-)

Was it OS/8 (or a derivative) that started out as the
First User Customizable Keyboard monitor? The reply to the
obvious objection was Second User ... (I don't recall what
it actually shipped as).

I assume that P/OS was just an accident (and coined after the fact).

Antonio