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• IBM discount: n. A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see {clone})
  inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise....
• gripenet n. [IBM] A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• Cheaper than IBM: P.C. Clone
• IBM compatible - IBM contemptible.
• gripenet: [IBM] n. A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• dinosaur n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
  Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
• dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
  Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
• IBM: Standards proposing organization. IBM develops hardware architectures, and builds slow underpowered prototypes for other companies to improve upon.
  See Clone....
• For simplicity, the word 'complex' is sometimes used .
  .. to refer to any of these IBM IBM Products. -- IBM publication SA22-7098-0 p. 1...