[pm215]

Right, but I think that 1998 is when it (officially/branding-wise) went from being an acronym with an expansion to being just three letters with no official 'long form'. (Compare the way IBM these days is just IBM, not International Business Machines.)

[tgflynn]

> Compare the way IBM these days is just IBM, not International Business Machines.

This is the second time I've seen someone make this claim online and I wonder where it comes from. IBM's name is still officially "International Business Machines Corporation (IBM Corp.)" according to this legal statement:

https://www.ibm.com/privacy/us/en/.

As for how it's referred to in practice, I've always heard it called IBM for as long as I can remember (at least back to the 70's) and I think that's been the case for much longer.

[pm215]

Oops, my mistake. I did try to check my belief on the IBM website by looking for an 'about the company' section but it was so reader-hostile I gave up and assumed that IBM was the name they were going by these days. Arm is definitely Arm, though, not anything-risc-machines.