To:               sdraoul@aol.com, matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu, arthurhu@halcyon.com
Date sent:        Wed, 21 May 1997 11:31:05 PST
Subject:          FWD:  A LESSON IN COMPUTER ACRONYMS
From:             dchiang@juno.com




 A LESSON IN COMPUTER ACRONYMS

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 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  (also -                 
   I've Been Moved - their often relocated employees lament) (also - 
itty bitty minds - as some consultants who work for them would say)
 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 Through 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 Realise Our Software Only
Fools teenagers