Keach, MoonMan, et al,

Great forum, great subject, great participants and participation. Yes, 'periodically' has its time and it appears its time has come. Public THANKS to IPC for their support in ALL arena's.

I for one do not appreciate the way some companies do business and although I did not partake in the thread I did read every posting and in the interest of expanding knowledge and documenting 'new vocabulary' I would like to present the following list for review by all. And if the discussion continues off-line please add my address to the distribution.

Bloatware:

Metastable: (I had the term "metastable" explained to me by being told to imagine a pyramid balancing on  its point.)

Microsloth:

Microsuck:

Microswill:

Micro$oft:  (Interesting note: This is the only term that Eudora spell check does not 'tag' as misspelled)

Spondulacks:

Thingummies:

Weindoz:

Windoze:

Thanking one and all. If you would like to submit any other terms (off-line) I would be happy to add them. Daffynitions would also be appropriate. I will make the compiled list available to one and all later with an announcement as to where it can be found.

Richard

At 10:37 AM 1/7/02 -0600, Keach reminded us:
Periodically we have to send out a reminder that Technet is a technical forum, for discussing electronics manufacturing issues. This is one of those times.  Since there are over 1,000 subscribers on the forum, there will be occasional off-topic discussions that will stir up heated discussion due to the subject and the number of people subscribed.
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