Re: When was the SPARC 20 introduced and discontinued?

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From: Rich Teer
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:35

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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, chocolatemalt wrote:

> Excellent points.  I would also add that with our inundation of acronyms
> in modern English, many are losing their capitalization in common use

Nah, that's just sloppiness on the behalf of the person typing the
abbreviation.

On a similar note, it really bugs me when publications don't properly
capitalise words, because of "house style".  For example, the common
use of "Sparc" instead of "SPARC".

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

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