Some Indystry Standard Acronyms ================================ ATARI - Always Trouble And Repair Impossible NT - Needs Towing (With reference to the US Navys experience with USS Yorktown) - Nearly There - Nice Try PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms PENTIUM - Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics WWW - World Wide Wait COBOL - Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language CD-ROM - Consumer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months OS/2 - Obsolete Soon, Too. MIPS - Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed WINDOWS - Will Install Needless Data On Whole System MICROSOFT - Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers LISP - Lots of Infuriating Silly Parenthesis RISC - Reduced Into Silly Code SCSI - System Can't See It DOS - Defective Operating System BASIC - Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control IBM - I Blame Microsoft - Ikky Blue Machines - It's Being Mended - I Believe Marketing ICL - It's coming later DEC - Do Expect Cuts EMACS - Eighty Megs and continuous swapping - Eventually Mallocs All Core Storage