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Word Processor - Software that magically transforms its user into a
professional author.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue
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Integrated Software - A single product that deftly performs hundreds of functions the user never needs and awkwardly performs the half-dozen he uses constantly.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue...
Spreadsheet - A program that gives the user quick and easy access to a wide variety of highly detailed reports based on highly inaccurate assumptions.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue...
Windows - A method of dividing a computer screen into two or more unusably tiny portions.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue...
Database Manager - A program that allows the user to manipulate data in every conceivable way except the absolutely essential one he or she conceives of the day after entering 20 Megabytes of raw data.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue...
Business Graphics - Popular with managers who understand neither decimals, fractions, Roman numerals, nor PI but have more than a passing acquaintance with pies and bars.
-- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue...
user, n: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.
-- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top" [I always thought "computer professional" was the phrase hackers used when they meant "idiot....
Word Star....THE Word Processo
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry.
Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. -- Richard M....
oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....