GEOM an acryonym?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4664266D.8090704 at fluffles.net>, Fluffles writes:
>Hello list,
>
>We all know GEOM, but where GEOM got it's name from is not very well 
>documented. I found two sources claiming it to be an acronym for 
>"Geometry" and would like to verify this. The sources are:
>
>http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/Geom/
>http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/GEOM
>
>Both leave something to be desired: the first source is from it's author 
>but does not indicate if GEOM is truely derived from Geometry.

It is.  Truly.

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