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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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Subject: Re: Acronym database
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Date: 8 Feb 91 04:14:05 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.193720.12383@cs.utk.edu> <1991Jan31.090154.15487@odin.diku.dk> <1991Feb3.184221.27848@wam.umd.edu> <5629@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <1991Feb6.154142.23452@siesoft.co.uk>
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In article <1991Feb6.154142.23452@siesoft.co.uk> stuart@siesoft.co.uk (Stuart Hood) writes:
>It wasn't until we had actually implemented the software and we were just
>tidying up the documentation that we actually did something about it:  the
>glossary said that TAL meant, Task Allocation Logic.

A co-worker, Nick Camillone, was part of a group that was trying to
name the IBM RISC System/6000 (the "POWER" part, I believe).  I
suggested "CRISP" for "Cycle Reduced Instruction Set Processor".

That would make the operating system "CRISPIX" ;-) (It's crispy
times two!)

Their final choice was "Performance Optimization With Enhanced
RISC".  I liked mine better, but theirs wins the prize for being a
two level acronym.

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