Re: When was the SPARC 20 introduced and discontinued?

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From: Colin B.
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:27

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In comp.unix.solaris Coy Hile <hile@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
> Rich Teer wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Kralizec Craig wrote:
>> 
>>> Forgive my naivety, but what is an 'SSP'?
>> 
>> 
>> "System Service Processor".  Or Solaris Systems Programming,
>> depending on the context.  :-)
>> 
> 
> Rich,
> 
> Am I the only one who still (correctly -- though the other option is 
> AFAIK equally correct as well) pluralizes acronyms with an apostrophe?

You'd be hard pressed to convince many linguists that an apostrophe is
the correct way to pluralise acronyms. With VERY VERY FEW exceptions, the
standard practice is (and for centuries has been) just to add an "s".

And I'm only mentioning it because you brought it up first. :-)

Colin

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