On 20040107T154342+0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
>
> Tuon FAQ:n mukaan POSIX on akronyymi, POSIX is an acronym for
> Portable Operating System Interface.
POSIX ei mitenkään voi olla sanojen Portable Operating System Interface
akronyymi: koko ilmaisusta ei löydy X-kirjainta. Kyse on Richard
Stallmanin aikoinaan sepittämästä sanasta.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
acronym
n : a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
acronym
<jargon> An identifier formed from some of the letters (often
the initials) of a phrase and used as an abbreviation. {This
dictionary} contains a great many acronyms; see the contents
page for a list.
See also {TLA}.
(1995-03-15)
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX:
"The term POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman in response to an IEEE
request for a memorable name. It is a near acronym for Portable
Operating System Interface, with the X signifying the UNIX heritage of
the API."
--
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://www.iki.fi/gaia/
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