Gang of Nine:
Originally the Gang of None, this is a group of 100+ coming-of-age
companies marked by their new-found willingness to tell IBM jokes in
public, their unwillingness to pay IBM bus royalties. Answer: EISA,
MCA, and Greyhound. Question: name two dogs and a bus.
Originally the Gang of None, this is a group of 100+ coming-of-age
companies marked by their new-found willingness to tell IBM jokes in
public, their unwillingness to pay IBM bus royalties. Answer: EISA,
MCA, and Greyhound. Question: name two dogs and a bus.
Related:
- Micro Channel Architectures (MCA):
IBM's new bus that carries information in 32-bit packets.
The first bus developed solely by lawyers, it is considered... - EISA:
Chinese for "we copied it without duplicating it".
Inscrutable alternative to Micro Channel Architecture... - rice box n.
[from ham radio slang] Any Asian-made commodity
computer,
esp. an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible... - rice box: [from ham radio slang] n. Any Asian-made commodity
computer,
esp. an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible... - PBF: Pay Bus
... - IBM: In London a frequent answer to the question
'Where
is the tourguide?' "I be 'im... - The hardware bus needs a new
token... - Nothing is 100% certain,
bug free or IBM compatible... - The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair".
Howard Anderson, "Yankee...
From the same category:
- Will Hitlery's grave be a
feminizt plot... - Bureaucratic Cop-Out Number 1: You should have seen it when I got it!
Marshall L.... - Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother-
she looks like my father. -- Tony... - How many
hookers
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. "Who needs lights... - At Microsoft, it doesn't matter which file you're
compiling,
only which flags you #define." -- Colin...
