xpaname(7)

🦋 NAME 🦋

XPAName — so like... what does XPA even stand for? 💀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

What does XPA stand for? Who knows anymore!

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay bestie, sit down, because nobody actually knows what XPA stands for. Dunno! 🙈

Here's the lore though: the XPA messaging system was originally built on top of the X Window System, and XPA was the mnemonic for X Public Access — the whole point being to emphasize that they were providing public access to previously private data and algorithms in Xt programs. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

But now that XPA is no longer tied to X, you could argue we should change the name. How about SPAM: simple public access mechanism? 🍓 Cute, right? Except XPA is in widespread use in the astronomical community of its birth, and the name has taken on a life of its own. main character energy fr fr. So if anyone out there can think of what XPA now means... please let us know. 🫶

And ngl, if you think this is bad, consider the MMT Telescope on Mount Hopkins, Arizona. When it was first installed twenty years ago, it featured an array of six 72-inch diameter mirrors, which is where its name came from: the Multiple Mirror Telescope. 🌈

Then, in spring of 1999, those mirrors got replaced by a single 21 and 1/2 -foot diameter primary mirror — the largest single-piece glass reflector on the North American continent. 😭 and now MMT stands for ... MMT! 💀💖

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• See xpa(n) for a list of XPA help pages ✨

version 2.1.15 · July 23, 2013 — mwah, that's a wrap bestie, ty for reading the SAORD Documentation, ily, go touch some grass now 💖🧚‍♀️🎀