






AAAAA The Organization for Drunk Drivers 
AOL Anti On-Line 
APPLE Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity  
BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control  
CD-ROM Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months  
COBOL Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language  
COMPUTER Capable Of Making Perfectly Uncomplicated Tasks Extremely Rigorous  
DOS Defunct Operating System  
IBM I Blame Microsoft   
  
IBM I Bought Macintosh  
ISDN It Still Does Nothing  
LISP Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses  
LOTUS Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious  
MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash, If Not The Operating System Hangs  
MCSE Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert  
MCSE Must Consult Someone Experienced  
MCSE Making Computers Slow Everyday  
MICROSOFT Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
MIPS Mistakes Incurred Per Second  
MIPS Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed  
NTSC Never The Same Color 
OS/2 Obsolete Soon Too  
PASCAL Pedantry And Strictness Created A Language 
PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms  
PENTIUM Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
RISC Reduced Into Silly Code  
SCSI System Can't See It   
  
SCSI-2 System Can't See It Again  
SNMP Security Not My Problem 
WINDOWS Wonderful Interface No Dos User Would Sanction  
WINDOWS Will Install Needless Data On Whole System  
A-OLs Administrators On-Line. Administrators who police on-line services. 
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact 
ADN Any Day Now 
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned. 
AFAIK As Far As I Know 
AFAIR As Far As I Remember 
AFJ April Fool's Joke 
AFK Away From the Keyboard 
AISI As I See It 
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor 
ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different