limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (07/17/89)
In article <12702@well.UUCP> gail@well.UUCP (Gail Gurman) writes: > From San Jose Mercury News, Sunday morning, July 2, 1989 > > THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF PERSONAL COMPUTING > by Paul Andrews [much deleted] > Today, it's alphabet soup gone wild: DTP, TSR, EMS, DVI, > CAD and CAM, FAX and VAX, CGA, EGA, VGA, OS/2, PS/2, MCA--are you > still with me? OK, then how about: EGD, GUI, QBE, SQL, DSP, > AIX, LAN, RSI ... YGU? (You give up?) > > We're starting to sound like small-town bureaucrats. Do > your part to fight TLA proliferation. (TLA, of course, stands > for Three-Letter Abbreviations.) > [much more deleted] Well, out of 22 I couldn't get 3 :^). So, just what is EGD, QBE and RSI? (BTW, thanks for the re-print! Another good article to put on the wall!) -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University "DEC's All-In-1 isn't completely useless, but it's a nice attempt."