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Re: Acronymous AnonymousPosted by Patricia (rix.g@bmts.com) on 24 March 2002 00:28:53 UTC |
| Melanie had these forwarded from her brother-in-law. Like Angela, I do not agree with the MacIntosh acronym, but it takes all kinds: PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms ISDN - It Still Does Nothing APPLE - Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity SCSI - System Can't See It DOS - Defective Operating System BASIC - Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control IBM - I Blame Microsoft DEC - Do Expect Cuts CD-ROM - Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months OS/2 - Obsolete Soon, Too. WWW - World Wide Wait MACINTOSH - Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs PENTIUM - Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics COBOL - Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language AMIGA - A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction LISP - Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis MIPS - Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed WINDOWS - Will Install Needless Data On Whole System GIRO - Garbage In Rubbish Out MICROSOFT - Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers |
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