On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:42:55 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> POST = Power On Self Test.  I'm really surprised you don't know that,
>> it's a very common thing for people who work with computers to know.
> 
>   I program computers, I don't build them.

When I was starting out in the computer business, I was programming and 
using just IBM PS/2s, not building them.  But I knew what it was, and 
everyone I knew knew what it was.

It's just so surprising that such a fundamental element of computers is 
something you don't know.  I thought everyone knew what it was - even my 
mother knows what POST stands for, and she is functionally computer-
illiterate....(OK, not really, but you get my point)

Jim

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