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Article #1178Re: what does ISO stand for?
From: Simon Kenyon
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 13:32
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 13:32
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> Well, it's not true. As sources, I cite the 802.3 standard's foreword > and also John McNamara's _Local Area Networks_. They both define ISO > as the International Organization for Standardization. No, it's not an > acronym. An international body such as ISO can not afford to appear to > favor any one language, even in the tiniest way. So they carefully > chose ISO and names in different languages which did not have ISO as > an acronym. i have been told by someone living in France that ISO is OSI and OSI is ISO this she says makes life very difficult she works for a LARGE computer company and usually knows what she is talking about this does not exactly square with the above anyone with any comments -- Simon Kenyon EUnet: simon@einode.UUCP Smail: The National Software Centre, Dublin, IRELAND Phone: +353-1-716255 EUnet is a registered trademark of the EUUG
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!einode!simon From: simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: what does ISO stand for? Message-ID: <171@einode.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 09:32:03 EDT Article-I.D.: einode.171 Posted: Thu Oct 2 09:32:03 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 23:10:39 EDT References: <13196@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: The National Software Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 20