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From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
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> 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,


						Rick


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