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- From: stuart@siesoft.co.uk (Stuart Hood)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Acronym database
- Message-ID: <1991Feb6.154142.23452@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 6 Feb 91 15:41:42 GMT
-
- cc@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
-
- >In article <1991Feb3.184221.27848@wam.umd.edu>, rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock) writes:
-
- >> A few years ago I designed a piece of hardware that I dubbed 'TINA', which
- >> a fellow engineer claimed actually stood for 'This Is Not an Acronym' !!
-
- >Then of course there's 'TLA' - Three Letter Acronym...
- >--
-
- A while ago I was in a team designing some networking software. A few
- days into the design we had several modules with the usual, fairly, meaningful
- three letter arconyms except for one module which was called TAL: The
- Anonymous Lump. We kept meaning to change it since the design documentation
- formed part of our deliverable but never quite got round to it.
-
- 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.
-
- Stuart.
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