[Elecraft] KX3 - Noise Reduction

[Phil Hystad]

A silly thing to debate -- but, it has always meant "To Be Done".  In fact, I have never known any other definition in the world of computer programming where it is often used as a comment to a section of code.  So, at least for programming, To Be Done is it.  Always has been since I started programming in 1965 (and, I am still programming and I still put TBD in code comments every now and then).

But, a slight comment nod to Ron (AC7AC).  I think that TBD is more accurately called an "initialism" and not an acronym.  An acronym is a word formed by letters of a phrase or sentence such as sonar or radar.  Thus, an acronym can be pronounced and used as a word.  An initialism is a set of letters that are usually not pronounced or they receive a pronunciation from common practice.  For example, CEO, HTML, and SQL are all initialisms.  And, SQL has a common practice of pronunciation of Sequel although technically that is not correct and I believe the SQL standard stipulates this.  Sequel is actually the name of a similar language developed by IBM that preceded SQL.

Enough debate there is a CW contest to going on.

73, phil, K7PEH


On May 25, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Bill Tubbs wrote:

> Since I was a kid in the 60s TBD has meant "To Be Developed", particularly in the military. Never heard it as "to be done" but I suppose there are always regional differences. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On May 25, 2012, at 1:40 PM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:
> 
>> Actually, I have for half a century known TBD to be an acronym for "To Be Done". In this case the development of the code is likely complete. What remains to be done is to integrate it with the rest of the KX3 code, test and debug any unintended interactions. 
>> 
>> 73, Ron AC7AC
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> 
>> TBD...acronym from "to be deremined" I think, check if you have latest firmware loaded on it
>> 
>> 
>> VE3GNO Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> 
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Elecraft mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> 
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html