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From: wille@frith.msu.edu (Jeffrey Wille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: IBM Acronyms
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Date: 14 Aug 90 00:07:52 GMT
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I work as a programmer for IBM, and work on my A500 at home.  I much prefer
programming my Amiga, but that's beside the point ;-)

At work we asked everybody what they though IBM stands for.  Here are
some of our favorites:

Inferior, But Marketable
I Buy Macintosh
Internal Beaurocratic Mess
Incompatible Business Machines
Itty Bitty Machine
It's Backwards, Man

This was not intended to start a flame fest.  I just thought they were
kind of funny.  :^) It you feel the urge to charcoal broil me, please 
send flames to rbw@spock.byu.edu.

				Robert Wille (rbw@spock.byu.edu)

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on
the continuing viability of Fortran.
		-- Alan Perlis