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Subject:Re: TIEBREAKER NEEDED: What do you call this? From:Karen Mayer <Karen_Mayer -dot- TOUCH_TECHNOLOGY -at- NOTES -dot- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Jul 1995 11:52:21 EDT
According to American Heritage Dictionary, bit would be an ACRONYM, since
an acronym is "a word formed by the initial letters of a name or by
combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, as radar for
radio detecting and ranging." I guess the same would be true for modem,
meaning modulator/demodulator.
