Vaguely related, I’ve noticed before manuals in which tech writers provide expansions of acronyms - but they don’t realise that in the context of that manual th

Vaguely related, I’ve noticed before manuals in which tech writers provide expansions of acronyms - but they don’t realise that in the context of that manual the acronym means something different. I remember one z/OS manual saying AIX stood for “Advanced Interactive eXecutive”-which is true if we are talking about the Unix, but this manual was talking about a VSAM AIX (Alternative IndeX) - a secondary index for the VSAM flat file database system. Another example was USS being wrongly expanded as “UNIX System Services” when in the context it was actually a reference to VTAM’s “Unformatted System Services” (the part of VTAM which handles the initial LOGIN command, I think “Unformatted” because it is plain EBCDIC not 3270) In Windows, there is an account flag called “UF_MNS_LOGON_ACCOUNT”. A lot of people claim “MNS” stands for “Majority Node Set” - even one MS doc - see MNSLogonAccount in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/activedirectory/set-adaccountcontrol?view=windowsserver2022-ps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/activedi... - however, while it is true that’s what the acronym stands for in the context of Windows clustering, I’m pretty sure in the context of Windows user accounts it actually means “Microsoft Netware Services”-this flag was used by Microsoft’s 1990s era software which enabled Windows NT to pretend to be a Netware server, and the unrelated Windows clustering “MNS” has never used that account flag. “Microsoft Netware Services” was renamed to “Microsoft Services for Netware” (MSN-but not that MSN!-hence MSFN or SNW), no doubt for trademark law reasons, but the name of this flag got stuck with the original acronym. I don’t think it actually does anything unless you have that old stuff installed, which probably doesn’t work on newer versions of Windows. I suppose that being an effectively disused flag, there is nothing stopping people from stealing it for their own purposes, and probably someone out there has.