From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:15:14 +1100 (EST) Subject: [COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days In-Reply-To: <20201111045823.GH99027@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20201110231118.GW99027@eureka.lemis.com> <20201111000621.GY99027@eureka.lemis.com> <20201111030951.GD99027@eureka.lemis.com> <20201111045823.GH99027@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> 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. Yeah, they did have a habit of being permanent, but I don't recall them ever being called by any of those names during my servitude. -- Dave