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

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In article <52a4f625$0$1212$c3e8da3$50776f34 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>On 13-12-08 09:51, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> The discussion is not about knowing what PowerPuke is/was but that PPT is an
>> abbreviation for it.  
>
>
>Now Now ! Mr VAXman...
>
>This is about someone assuming "ppt" will instantly be interpreted by
>everyone as PowerPoint in the context of the discussion.
>
>In a context where someone is talking about presentations and
>conferences .ppt becomes fairly obvious (even if one wants to rebel
>against MS products). In a context where you talk about bypassing
>security on VMS and someone says "there's a ppt about that", then the
>context of "ppt" is not very clear.
>
>The fact that Mr VAXman's allergy to Redmond products results in
>anaphylactic shock when he sees "ppt" proves that he knows what ppt is
>associated with a Microsoft product :-) :-) :-)

VMS: it's always been VMS, despite the marketing Open prefix, not Virtual
Memory System.  In speaking about the OS, even in non-VMS forums, it's VMS.

RMS: Very few here say Record Management Services.  In conversation, it's
RMS.

DCL: there are books, manuals and forums devoted to DCL.  While we know it
is Digital Command Language, I seldom hear somebody say, "you can write a
Digital Command Language procedure to accomplish this and or that."

AST: I issued a QIO with an AST to perform "X" when the IO was complete.
I seldom hear or read anybody referring to Asynchonous System Traps when
AST is significantly less syllables and vocal chord vibrations.

Myriad other examples exists; especially, in our beloved VMS space.

I've never hear anybody say, "we had to suffer yet another content vacuous
PPT presentation."  I'd wager most others haven't either.  Should there be
another content vacuous presentation to be suffered, it's called by name;
not PPT.  It's also not an acronym; nor it is an abbreviation.  It's just
the extension letters M$ assigned to PowerPuke's files.  If presentation 
terminology is so well entrenched in the vocabulary of an average comp.os.-
vms denizen, then I shouldn't have to explain to people here about my ODP.
Note, I used ODP, not KEY, for I329.  Both of these which I've never EVER
heard referred to by anything other than Impress and Keynote but so be it
if file extensions are now acceptible substitutions to product names.  I
need to get back to a PAL now (not Alpha code either) which I'm sure will
elicit immediate recognition by the PPT savvy comp.os.vmser since it's on
a WEENDOZE system.  Yeah, right.
 
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