Fun_People Archive
8 Nov
Painful but True
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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 96 22:52:13 -0800
To: Fun_People
Subject: Painful but True
Forwarded-by: chuck@NYC.Thinkbank.COM (Chuck Ocheret)
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Useful Acronyms [or initialisms, for some of them -psl]
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
© 1996 Peter Langston