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Re: [OFF] Acronyms

• Posted by "Wallace B. Riley" <wryly at MINDSPRING.COM> Jun 08, 1998
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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