On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 15:54:06 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
Right! There's a TLA that rings a bell.
"Permanent Temporary Fix"?
Program Temporary Fix.
Yes. But I recall correctly. See the Wikipedia page:
Customers sometimes explain the acronym in a tongue-in-cheek manner
as permanent temporary fix or more practically probably this fixes,
because they have the option to make the PTF a permanent part of the
operating system if the patch fixes the problem.
Greg
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