Small Office Home Office It's a 90s term used for small hub, etc. at the time.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Peter St. John <peter.st.j...@gmail.com>wrote: > Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling > on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition: > (from https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define%3A+soho ) > "relating to a market for relatively inexpensive consumer electronics used > by individuals and small companies." > > That's great, but there are two funny things about the page. It follows > the definition with the actual google results for "soho", none of which > mention anything even related to the given definition. The other funny > thing is that the definition does not mention the acronym, or strictly > speaking, the etymology of the "word". > So I'm still mystified, and I don't know how an automatic dictionary > system using google got that definition when none of it's search results > get that definition. Any "pick best answer from the results" AI that I > might write would retrieve "South of Houston" &c. > So this is a put-on, right? > > So my actual bandwagon is that people should take the time to say what > they mean; I don't mind looking up unfamiliar words, and I had (otherwise I > wouldn't have known about the holotronic architecture idea). And if SOHO > means COTS but nobody remembers the acronym, then I suggest sticking with > COTS. > Peter > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III <el...@cse.psu.edu>wrote: > >> On 11/15/2013 12:28 PM, Peter St. John wrote: >> > I missed the 4-letter acronym; my grasp stops at TLA's :/ >> > By SOHO you don't mean "self organizing holons" although that idea is >> > germane to distributed processing. So what's a SOHO? >> >> Just because I find this service so snarky/funny: >> >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A+soho >> >> No ill will intended :D. In your defense I also had to look it up. >> >> Best, >> >> ellis >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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