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From: mellis@dircon.co.uk (Mike Ellis)
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 22:30:22 GMT
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:

>In article <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se> writes:
>
>>> : tcsh = exTended C SHell ??
>
>>I have always believed that it stood for Tab C Shell
>
>Well, there have been several tcshs, and in the case of at least one of them
>the t stood for Tenex:
>
>  macbeth$ more tcsh.doc 
>        Tenex Style CShell Command Processor
>
>  This is a brief documentation of `tcsh' (Tenex CSHell), which is an
>  extension of CShell and has the following goodies.
>
>Tenex was the extended version of TOPS-10, which had very fancy
>context-sensitive command and argument completion.
>
>-- Richard
>--
>"I" is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.

Sorry to spoil the fun but these are not acronyms. An acronym is an
abbreviation which can be pronounced as if it were a word. How on
earth does one pronounce tcsh ?  Most TLAs (three letter acronyms) are
not TLAs at all. In fact TLA is not a TLA itself.