What's in a name, ...

From: Rick Lott (Hughes  Aircraft Company)
To: RP-ML
Date: Monday, January 16, 1995
Subject: What's in a name, ...
Terry Wohlers writes:
> And consider this:  It's very unlikely that changes will occur in the names
> of the Rapid Prototyping Report (RPR), Rapid Prototyping Journal (RPJ),
> the Rapid Prototyping Association of SME (RPA/SME), Rapid Prototyping &
> Manufacturing '95 (RP&M '95 - Dearborn, Michigan) and the Sixth
> International Conference on Rapid >Prototyping (Dayton, Ohio).  The last
> two are among the largest and most >established RP events in the industry
> and academia.

The most resistance I've seen to a name change from Rapid Prototyping has 
been from those who would have to order new stationary!