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- From: critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Critz)
- Subject: Re: What does AXP stand for ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.202649.19528@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Critz)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH
- References: <CD91145A389FE3041F@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:26:49 GMT
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- In article <CD91145A389FE3041F@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>, DEREK@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:
- |>>What does AXP stand for in `OpenVMS AXP (Alpha)'?
- |>>
- |>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
- |>> Tarif Halabi, Crowntek Business Centers, Toronto, Ontario
- |>> xbrix.uucp!thalabi or thalabi@xbrix.uucp
- |>> psi%302043800069::thalabi
- |>> +1 416 507-5070
- |>
- |>The story I heard from our local account manager is:
- |>
- |> "It doesn't stand for anything. That's why it was used!"
- |>
- |>Something about problems with trademarks. Anyway, I believe he said that
- |>that there is going to be some sort of a contest to "name the Alpha", and
- |>come up with a meaning for AXP.
- |>
- ...
- |>STARLET.... Anyway, this all leads me to think that AXP *DOES* have some
- |>meaning -- at least, unofficially.
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- In this case, your account manager is exactly correct. It really *DOESN'T*
- stand for anything (other than as another indictment of the fact that the
- world has too many lawyers! :-)
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- Richard Critz critz@star.enet.dec.com
- -- I speak only for myself; I make no commitments for Digital. --
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