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Ibm - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Ibm : International Business Machines (manufacturer, IBM)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Ibm : /I-B-M/ Once upon a time, the computer company most hackers loved
to hate; today, the one they are most puzzled to find themselves liking.
Based on hackerdom's beginnings in the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, IBM
was regarded with active loathing. Common expansions of the corporate
name included: Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious
Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a
near-{infinite number of even less complimentary expansions (see also
fear and loathing). What galled hackers about most IBM machines above
the PC level wasn't so much that they were underpowered and overpriced
(though that counted against them), but that the designs were incredibly
archaic, crufty, and elephantine ... and you couldn't _fix_ them --
source code was locked up tight, and programming tools were expensive,
hard to find, and bletcherous to use once you had found them.
We didn't know how good we had it back then. In the 1990s, Microsoft
became more noxious and omnipresent than IBM had ever been. Then, in the
1980s IBM had its own troubles with Microsoft and lost its strategic
way, receding from the hacker community's view.
In the late 1990s IBM re-invented itself as a services company, began
to release open-source software through its AlphaWorks group, and began
shipping Linux systems and building ties to the Linux community. To
the astonishment of all parties, IBM emerged as a staunch friend of the
hacker community and open source development.
This lexicon includes a number of entries attributed to `IBM'; these
derive from some rampantly unofficial jargon lists circulated within
IBM's formerly beleaguered hacker underground.
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Ibm |
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simbeckhampson: Daily Bookmarks 12/12/2009:
Adventures in Second Life – 2009 – ASTD How Ibm is using Second Life f.. http://bit.ly/8ygoi1 #elearning |
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DevonRose: Ibm had the early forerunning in the 45nm process to avoid quantum tunnelling. Maybe 16nm can be possible after all? |
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dagbnor: @terjeo Det minner jo litt om Ibm PC/de andre -> Mac/Windows(/Linux). Merke & HW blir irrelevant etterhvert som markedet utvikler seg |
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