Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:55:36 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA question Message-ID: <3737D468.305D8B3F@uk.radan.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990510175105.22496H-100000@dsinw.com>
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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
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