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From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
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Subject: Re: what does ISO stand for?
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 11:49:08 EDT
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In article <171@einode.UUCP> simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) writes:
>i have been told by someone living in France that ISO is OSI
>and OSI is ISO

The french always reverse things (or is it the british?)
So ISO for them becomes OSI (Organisation pour les Standards Internationals),
and our OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) will be ISO (Interconnection
des Systemes Ouverts).
When you are, like me, anglo-saxon living in a french-speaking country,
you can see that it is just occasionally(!) confusing.