Clone: An Acronym Standing For "Copied Low-cost Optimal Non-IBM Equipment".

Clone: An Acronym Standing For "Copied Low-cost Optimal Non-IBM Equipment".

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Clone:
An acronym standing for "Copied Low-cost Optimal Non-IBM Equipment".
Often used as a cure for the dreaded Big Blue. Texas, land of
independent self-styled individualists, is current "Siliclone Valley"
where imagination is limited only by IBM.

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Big Red Switch n. [IBM] The power switch on a computer, esp.
he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp.
he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
Cheaper than IBM: P.C. Clone
IBM: Identical Blue Men.
IBM: Incompatible Blue Machine
IBM: Infernal Blue Machine
IBM: Intriguingly Blue Motif
IBM: Incredibly Big Manufacture
IBM: Incredibly Big Monste