RE: Spelling out, was Acronyms

["Jaynes, Lynne" <lj210003 -at- exchange -dot- DAYTONOH -dot- NCR -dot- com>]

According to wombat...
The word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and
never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of
connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make
it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then
to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry
"Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard. 
Lynne Jaynes
Information Products Designer
Utility/Tool Development
Lynne -dot- Jaynes -at- ncr -dot- com
(858) 485-4094


John Posada:
I didn't know that! Way Cool...it just replaced Billy Gates' GWBasic
standing for Gee Whizz Basic as my coolest acro.
> By the way, I understand the the protocol used to communicate
> between scanners and PCs, TWAIN, is an acronym for Technology
> Without An Interesting Name. If that's true, I'd probably want to
> spell it out in a manual just for the fun of it.



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