I don't think the etiology of an acronym matters much or for long. COBOL is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language, but who cares.
Indeed, it is often better not to look under the hood/bonnet. Consider GRS Global Resource Serialization Gamma Ray Spectrometer Gender Reassignment Surgery DCBE Data Control Block Extension Double Contrast Barium Enema DASD Direct Access Storage Device Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction etc., etc., ad nauseam. Even the structured ones like BSAM and QSAM can be problematic. One of my teenagers, making what she described as a 'plausible inference' from the existence of this pair and that of BDAM, asked me, with guile, about the properties of QDAM. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
