From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:58:23 +1100 Subject: [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days In-Reply-To: References: <20201110231118.GW99027@eureka.lemis.com> <20201111000621.GY99027@eureka.lemis.com> <20201111030951.GD99027@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20201111045823.GH99027@eureka.lemis.com> On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 15:54:06 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> Right! There's a TLA that rings a bell. "Permanent Temporary Fix"? > > Program Temporary Fix. Yes. But I recall correctly. See the Wikipedia page: Customers sometimes explain the acronym in a tongue-in-cheek manner as permanent temporary fix or more practically probably this fixes, because they have the option to make the PTF a permanent part of the operating system if the patch fixes the problem. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: