Ethelcofie’s Thought-osphere » acronyms http://blog.ethelcofie.com Bits and Bobs from Software development,New Technologies and other random stuff i have done Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Silly Computer Acronyms… http://blog.ethelcofie.com/2009/02/04/silly-computer-acronyms/ http://blog.ethelcofie.com/2009/02/04/silly-computer-acronyms/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:01:40 +0000 ethelcofie http://blog.ethelcofie.com/?p=106 Got sent this email by a friend, quite funny

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: 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

AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction

LISP: Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses

MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers *[not a microsoft hater but its funny all the same ]

RISC: Reduced Into Silly Code

 

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