Comment on ATX case with room for 5 hard drives
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 year ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
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talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love you bot, but… but PCIe is just “PCI express”, NAS nowadays means more “home server” than network-attached storage, and no one even ever knew what SATA is supposed to expand to.
There are acronyms that are shortened versions of meaningful names and then there are acronyms that are actual meaningful names for which some meaningless (and quickly forgotten) expansion happens to exist.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I side with the bot here. You can’t expand an acronym to something that still contains an acronym 😛
On the other hand, the bot does that when it expands “SATA” to “Serial AT Attachment” lol. Should be “Serial Advanced Technology Attachment”, or “Serial ATA” if we go with your approach :)
talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well… if one must believe their own logo, (see sata-io.org) “SATA” shoud actually be expanded to “Serial ATA” :)
Acronyms of acronyms may not be super-common, but they do exist: eg. Cisco has a network protocol they call “PVST”, which means “Per-VLAN Spanning Tree”, where “VLAN” is “Virtual Local Area Network” (or “Virtual LAN”; LAN is another of those acronyms that is mostly regarded as being its own word).
In open source, there’s a long tradition of recursive acronyms: eg. “Linux” means “Linux is not Unix”, which you can’t in finite time expand according to your rule :)
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Interesting comment. Thanks!