February 1, 2003

Fortunately(?) Oracle did not make the list...

• 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
• 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 Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
• RISC: Reduced Into Silly Code —
— http://www.pinetree.net/humor/computeracronyms.html

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