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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
IBM
International Business Machines
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]
IBM /I-B-M/ Once upon a time, the computer company most hackers loved
to hate; today, the one they are most puzzled to find themselves liking.
From hackerdom's beginnings in the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, IBM
was regarded with active loathing. Common expansions of the corporate
name included: 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 (see also
fear and loathing). What galled hackers about most IBM machines above
the PC level wasn't so much that they were underpowered and overpriced
(though that counted against them), but that the designs were incredibly
archaic, crufty, and elephantine ... and you couldn't _fix_ them --
source code was locked up tight, and programming tools were expensive,
hard to find, and bletcherous to use once you had found them.
We didn't know how good we had it back then. In the 1990s, Microsoft
became more noxious and omnipresent than IBM had ever been. Then, in the
1980s IBM had its own troubles with Microsoft and lost its strategic
way, receding from the hacker community's view.
In the late 1990s IBM re-invented itself as a services company, began
to release open-source software through its AlphaWorks group, and began
shipping Linux systems and building ties to the Linux community. To
the astonishment of all parties, IBM emerged as a staunch friend of the
hacker community and open source development.
This lexicon includes a number of entries attributed to `IBM'; these
derive from some rampantly unofficial jargon lists circulated within
IBM's formerly beleaguered hacker underground.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]
IBM
International Business Machines (manufacturer, IBM)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
IBM
n.
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n.
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3 (lb en geology) (initialism of en Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
IBM
n.
(lb en weapons) (initialism of en intercontinental ballistic missile)
n.
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3 (lb en geology) (initialism of en Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
IBM
n.
(lb en weapons) (initialism of en intercontinental ballistic missile)
n.
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3 (lb en geology) (initialism of en Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
IBM
n.
(lb en weapons) (initialism of en intercontinental ballistic missile)
n.
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3 (lb en geology) (initialism of en Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]IBM /ˌaɪbˌiːˈɛm/ شركه اي بي امFrom English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
IBM /ˌaɪbˌiːˈɛm/From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]1. एक बहु राष्ट्रीय कंपनी "International business machines make computers and computer peripherals."
IBM //ˈˌʌɪbiːˈɛm//From Croatian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 : [ freedict:hrv-eng ]アイ・ビー・エム International Business Machines
IBM /ˈibˌəmˌə/ International Business MachinesFrom Norwegian Nynorsk-Norwegian Bokmål FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:nno-nob ]
IBM IBMFrom język polski-English FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:pol-eng ]
IBM /aj‿bʲi‿ˈɛ̃m/ IBM (informatyka, informatyczny) (ekonomia, ekonomiczny) nazwa koncernu informatycznego i marki produktów;From język polski-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:pol-jpn ]
IBM /aj‿bʲi‿ˈɛ̃m/ アイ・ビー・エム (informatyka, informatyczny) (ekonomia, ekonomiczny) nazwa koncernu informatycznego i marki produktów;From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]/ˈaɪˌbiˌɛm/
n. IBM,国际事务机器股份有限公司; n. 美国国际商用机器公司;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
IBM
IBM计算机公司[该公司申请了很多专利]