The award for best computer-related acronym goes to the Oxford English Dictionary for their new electronic editing system, Pasadena — Perfect All-Singing All-Dancing Editorial and Notation Application. (As reported in the latest issue of the Oxford English Dictionary News.)
And the perennial runner-up lifetime bust is awarded to Macintosh — Most Applications Crash, If Not The Operating System Hangs. (Referring — “mostly” — to the pre–OS X Macs.)
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