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PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

• anyfoo 4y ago
  I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that's why they called the (backwards compatible) 32bit variant "CardBus", instead of PCMCIA32 or something.
  • wkat4242 4y ago
    Even before that they renamed the old ones to "PC Card" at some point
• layer8 4y ago
  It became obsolete right after I finally managed to memorize it.