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From: phillips@reed.UUCP (Patrick Phillips)
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Subject: Re: PREAN
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 15:09:25 EST
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Summary: 

>	The Time has come for PREAN.
>
>	PREAN, of course, is the
>	Program for the Reduction or Elimination of Acronyms from News
>	^               ^            ^              ^             ^

When I was working for IBM this summer, there was a program on the
system which would translate acronyms for you.  There were thousands.
No one likes acronyms like IBM.  There was no entry for AT&T or UNIX
(I know, I know, UNIX doesn't stand for anything).  My favorite 
entry was
	IBM:	You must be kidding.
And who says it's an organization without a sense of humor.

	-Patrick Phillips (phillips@reed)

"I never trust a computer system where the terminal does more work
 than the cpu."