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LEN ANDERSON 04/19/85 at 10:58:07
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ACRONYMS of Computers Explained -
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Most hackers use the following acronyms without a
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thought about their derivation. To make things
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perfectly clear, the following is presented for the avid
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computer hacker:
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ASCII.......American Standard Code of Interference
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Injection
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CP/M........Confused Processing (of disk) Machinery
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DEC.........Dammned Expensive COpmuter
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DOS.........Disturbed Organization System
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EBCDIC......Extended Binary-Coded Disastrous
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Interference Cause
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IBM.........Itty Bitty Machine
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LANGUAGES
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BASIC.......Beginners' All-Suspect Intelligence Confuser
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FORTRAN.....FORmula TRANsgression
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PASCAL......non-acronym, named after unknown French
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mathematician Irving Pascal (1687-1661)
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FORTH.......Hard To Remember Origin Facility (reverse-
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notation acronym)
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LISP........Logical Interleaving of Suspicious
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Parameters (for those with artificial
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intelligence instead of the real thing)
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LOGO........Lesser Ordering of Gross Observations
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ALGOL.......All Language Gone On Location
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instructions for non-existant computer
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COMPONENTS
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CPU.........Central Procrastinator Unit
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RAM.........Random Access Mistakes
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ROM.........Randomly-Ordered Mistakes
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EPROM.......Electrically-Positioned Randomly-Ordered
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Mistakes
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Those wishing to know more should consult your friendly
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neighborhood computer salesperson. Cont
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