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Subject:Re: Hard Hitting Computing From:Joan Smith <jsmith -at- ENCORE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:23:01 -0500
>
> Recently saw a billboard splash (talk about the popularization of personal
> computing) announcing the "next killer application."
>
> This term has always bugged me. Do you think that it has a violent subtext
> or is it just the kinder, gentler Canadian in me? I mean, what's wrong with
> "powerful, next wave, etc."
>
> Other examples of hard-hitting computing that come to mind are:
>
> - "kill -9" (UNIX command)
> - "Hit Enter" (verbal)
And then there is the ever-debatable "Abort the process"...
^^^^^
Let's not go there!!!
Joan (who doesn't think PCs were mean to be PC)
>
> Maybe we could come up with a glossary of two-fisted computing terms. No,
> "paste" doesn't count, even though it's in Webster.
>
> Ben Hechter
> Northern Telecom
> Vancouver, B.C
>
