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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/22/2023 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 am also guilty of occasionally to have called Rdb for RDB.

:-)

Arne