[1687] in Humor
HUMOR: Computer Acronyms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Thu Nov 7 09:41:31 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:33:49 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
From: mkhusid@MIT.EDU (Michael Khusid )
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 23:22:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Oracle Service Humor Mailing List
Useful Acronyms
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 Defunct 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
Submitted by: Wally Beddoe@tkusa.com
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