on 10/24/00 10:37 AM, Christian M. M. Brady at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 10/24/00 11:29 AM, "David Oberst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Light a candle to St. Presper...
>
> Is this the saint of over worked programmers of of harried users? I really
> need to get these straight in my mind.... ;-)
>
This is actually a reference to the classic "The Devil's DP Dictionary", a
humorous work by Stan Kelly-Bootle (Presper Eckert was actually a pioneer
computer designer). "St. Presper" pops up at various points in the
dictionary. Another frequent entity is IBM (Irish Business Machines) which
invented that little-used RAM/ROM alternative, the Write-Only Memory (WOM).
--
David Oberst/NWT Bureau of Statistics/Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
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