SOME COMMON COMPUTER ACRONYMS (and what they really mean)

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
DOS-II: Same as above, but we tried to fix it and the new version doesn't work any better than the old one.
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 Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
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
and, best of all:
DOT-COM: Definitely Over Time--Completely Out of Money.

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