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Computer-Related Acronyms

  • IBM
    • I Blame Microsoft
    • Idiots Buy Me
    • Idiots Building Machines
    • I'll Buy Macintoshes (next time...)
    • It Bit Me
    • It Built Microsoft
    • It's Better Manually
    • I've Been Mislead
    • I've Been Mugged
  • WINDOWS
    • Well, It Never Does Operate With Speed
    • When I Need Data Output Without Speed
    • While Idle, Needs DX or WorkStation
    • Wholly Inadequate Needless Damned Outrageous Waste of Space
    • Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
  • WIN
    • Whoppingly Immense NOP
    • Worm Infestation Netware
  • MS-WINDOWS NT / WINDOWS NT
    • My Solitaire With Its New De-accelerator, Only With Some Network Technology
    • Well Intended, Netword De-accelerator, Only Works Sometimes, Never Totally
    • WINDOWS (as a) Network Trojan

Different Operating Systems Expectations

  • Macintosh: What You See Is What You Get
  • MS-DOS: You Asked For It, You Got It
  • UNIX: IfUHv2sk, UDntWnt2Kno
  • VMS: You Got It, All Of It, Want It Or Not

Random Abbreviations for Many Computer Companies

  • APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
  • DEC: Dump Everything and Close
  • DEC: Do Expect Cuts
  • HCL: Hilarious Computer Logic
  • HP: Hot Pursuit
  • IBM: I Blame Microsoft
  • MAC: Most Absurd Computer
  • MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
  • MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
  • NEXT: Now EXchange for Trash
  • OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too.
  • WARP: What A Rot Program

Acronymns for Other Computer Terms:

  • AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
  • BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
  • CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
  • COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
  • DOS: Defective Operating System
  • ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
  • LISP: Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis
  • MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
  • PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
  • PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
  • SCSI: System Can't See It
  • WWW: World Wide Wait