"Robert Morley" wrote in
:

And while "tbl" itself may have first appeared in a Smart Access
article in 1993, as I said, Hungarian notation itself pre-dates that.
As I said, Simonyi K*roly (aka Charles Simonyi) did indeed work at
Microsoft, but he started Hungarian Notation back when he was working
for Xerox.

For a good description of the history of "systems Hungarian" and its
misapplication see Joel on Softwa

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

Tim F