[Info-vax] Nomenclature, pt. 2 [was Re: VMS survivability]

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 2/20/2023 7:33 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>>> In article <tsu14t$g5l7$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 
>>>> And then there is the vendor independence. With Linux you
>>>> were not tied to SUN/IBM/HP/DEC. Some companies liked that.
>>     
>>> "Sun" not "SUN"
>> 
>> The first product from Sun Microsystems was built around the SUN-1 processor
>> board, in which "SUN" was an acronym for "Stanford University Network".
>
> My use of "SUN" instead of "Sun" was just a mistake though.
>
>:-)
>

People also write ADA instead of Ada, and unlike, say, Fortran, it was
never called ADA.

I also noticed the French document just posted also randomly switches
between ADA and Ada, which looks _really_ sloppy.

Simon.

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