Comment on ATX case with room for 5 hard drives
dan@upvote.au 1 year agoPCIe is just “PCI express”
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!