25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
11:34 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
PCMCIA - 'People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
-- Charles
Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K
machines) we joked
that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.
To me the good news is was if you could laugh at yourself I think it was
pretty sign. There were a bunch of them... two more I can remember:
LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens
Multics - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously