People were getting crazy with acronyms back then. Like Wine - "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
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At least it ain't VHDL, which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or, in full, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language. Its name is as much of a clusterfuck as the language itself.
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ARM is Advanced RISC Machine
RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer
At least it isn't recursive.
Wine.
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Wait until you find out what GNU stands for
Also FedEx Express: "Federal Express Express"
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I always use my PIN number at the ATM machine.
GNU would like a word.
If I recall AOL was changed to just be AOL like how KFC is now just KFC around when they merged with time warner
Ask a PHP developer what it stands for

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