[Info-vax] [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

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In article <l7v0nk$3e8$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2013-12-07, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> When the context at hand is "electronic presentations", *no* IT
>> professional today would missunderstand what PPT stands for!
>>
>
>Agreed. As a example, I know at least three definitions for "RMS" and
>each would be clear in a discussion because of the context it would be
>used in without having to spell it out.

Mention of RMS in the context of comp.os.vms stands a better chance of being
understood to be Record Management Services than as Root Mean Squared, Risk 
Management Solutions, Richard Matthew Stallman, Railway Mail Service or the
Ramstein Air Base.  I'm sure there are those reading here that have used or
have seen RMS in these other contexts but they would most likely read Record
Management Services.  

PPT: Parts per Thousand|Trillion, Precipitate?  Primitive Pythagorean Triple,
Perl Power Tools, Personal Property Tax or Putnam Premier (Income) Trust.  I
would have thought of one of the aforementioned; not PowerPuke which I would
have assumed abbreviated as PP.

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