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- From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
- Subject: Please explain computer joke
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:47:00 GMT
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- "Dilbert"s nerdiness appeals to me; there, I've said it. But I don't
- alwsys catch his references.
-
- In a recent strip, the humour lies in recognizing the acronyms buried
- in a sentence reading, in part,
- "...SO, EITHER AN IBM 586 WITH 10 MEG RAM OR MAYBE A SPARC CPU
- ON A LAN...BUT WITH AI AND AVR COMBINED WITH BISON..."
- But what do "AVR" and "BISON" refer to?
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