On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 03:58:18 -0500, Tex Texin <tex@...> wrote:

> fwiw, I have a page on the origin of i18n:
> http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html
> tex

Thanks much!

Some articles by the late Bob Bemer shed light on selecting characters for
ASCII, and the origin of the backslash.
<http://www.thocp.net/biographies/bemer_bob.htm>; try Googling, also.

Essentially sure I was there when the term "hard" drive was coined for
rigid-disk drives. Story is moderately "off-color".
Didn't help my reputation; I had recommended the fun-loving guy who was
hired, and who did it when Electronic Design's senior editors were away.

If you can't say it, it's not an acronym; but, what do you call the
others? Richard Lederer says, "initialism".

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