[Gllug] Off Topic TLA's

Jackson, Harry HJackson at colt-telecom.com
Fri Aug 24 11:10:49 UTC 2001


Its friday and I thought that some of you would appreciate a few of these

> PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
> ISDN - It Still Does Nothing
> 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 Thru 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
> MICROSOFT - Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools
> Teenagers
> RISC - Reduced Into Silly Code
> 


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