From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 23:57:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A40A155DD for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10h6Ti-0004FH-0C; Tue, 11 May 1999 06:57:23 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA01744; Tue, 11 May 1999 07:56:50 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA01883; Tue, 11 May 1999 07:56:49 +0100 Message-ID: <3737D468.305D8B3F@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:55:36 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rick hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rick hamell wrote: > > > Hello, I am a technical editor at IBM researching terms to determine > > whether they should be capitalized. I was wondering why you are > > capitalizing "Industry Standard Architecture"? Is it a proprietary usage > > or really just generic terminology? > > I don't speak for the FreeBSD team. But ISA is an acronym, it is > common usage to capitalize acronyms. SCUBA, PCI, SDRAM, CHP, etc, etc, etc, > Err, aren't acronyms where the (mainly) initial letters make a "word", either one that is in a dictionary, or a contrived one? e.g. DOS, SUN, ELF, COFF, WYSIWYG, GNU, RAM, ROM etc, etc. SCUBA yes, but PCI, SDRAM, CHP? no. and how about LINUX - Linux Is Not UniX :-) > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message