1. [OFF] Acronyms
I wrote:
>... it's for BASIC* (Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control)? 
but I forgot to explain the *. Sorry.
* I know BASIC stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Here are some acronyms I get from a mailing list I subscribed to on
November 16, 1996:
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
2. Re: [OFF] Acronyms
>IBM I Blame Microsoft
What about "Inferior But Marketable"? :)
Searching through my tagline files, I found:
RAM Rarely Adequate Memory
COBOL: Completely Obnoxious Because Of Length
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Boring Old Language
MODEM: Monumentally Overpriced Data Eating Machine
I have plenty more too... But those are the last of the acronyms.
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3. Re: [OFF] Acronyms
At 06:14 PM 6/8/98 +0700, you wrote:
>I wrote:
>>... it's for BASIC* (Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control)?
>
>but I forgot to explain the *. Sorry.
>
>* I know BASIC stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
>
>Here are some acronyms I get from a mailing list I subscribed to on
>November 16, 1996:
>
>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
>
Good list, but you got one wrong. IBM means Itsy Bitsy Morons.
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
