DaveNet: Saturday, June 21, 1997; by Dave Winer.

Acronyms Anyone Could Love

From Dave Sherman, dave@sherm.com, comes a list of acronyms that has been floating around the net...

• PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.

• 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 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 Them.

The best acronym of all time...

The name of a 1960s programming language.

Suitable acronym invented later.

SAIL.

What a suitable acronym!

So recursive...

Dave Winer

PS: See I Love Acronyms a few days ago, for background.