May be Steve was told this?
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9605/0046.html
About 5 years or 6 years ago, I was told by some DEC people while it was
still DEC.
It has no meaning, but paid a lot of money to get AXP to be used for
marketing purpose...
Never heard of stock symbol for American Express...
my 2 cents
> It's the stock symbol for American Express,
> but that's about it. It was purposely created
> to NOT mean anything or be an acronym for
> anything. It was easier to trademark I guess,
> plus there was a big push to NOT call things
> DEC-something.
>
> mike
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SteveCraft [mailto:scraft@nothinbut.net]
>> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:28 PM
>> To: axp-list@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: AXP Stands for What?
>>
>>
>>
>> When I bought my first 1000A a few years ago, the Digital rep
>> definitely
>> told me it stood for something....
>>
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