IBM

Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near-infinite number of even less complimentary expansions, including International Business Machines. See TLA. These abbreviations illustrate the considerable antipathy most hackers have long felt toward the "industry leader" (see fear and loathing).

(07 Feb 1995)