On 12/10/2019 20:39, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
On 10/10/19 22:46, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote:
DEC documentation mostly used uppercase in the
text; e.g. the "pdp11
peripherals handbook" (to transcribe the cover exactly) uses "PDP-11"
several times on pg 1-1.
And being an acronym it is of course upper-case...
At the risk of being labelled a pedant. from the OED:
Hi, Nemo.
It takes one to know one!
What is interesting about this definition is that an 'acronym' is
pronounced as a word (i.e. not spelled out as letters). So, from that
point of view PDP-11 is an 'initialism' and not an acronym :-)
Which opens up a whole area of controversy about how to pronounce:
vi
In my experience, research users and hackers spell it out as "vee eye"
as originally described by Bill Joy, but business/enterprise users tend
to pronounce it as "vye" instead.
Well, I'm a research *nix user so I spell "vi" out, but my dark secret
is that I do pronounce "vim" as a full word and don't spell it out...
I suppose this is just about recognition of a suitable peer group that
agree, but it really sets my teeth on edge when people pronounce "vi"!
Anyone else got pet hates about how people pronounce *nix commands?
There are many pointless discussions about this already on the Internet,
so please only post comments here of historical interest like mine :-)
Bye,
Tony.
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