hanoverphist
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- Dec 7, 2006
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i think this is pretty common. hell, i use fubar on repair orders at work.
i don't think i use any acronyms that aren't common, because it defeats the point of acronyms. i could see certain occupations using them a lot, though.
i use fubar all the time too.
the work ones kill me. OIT vs HMI vs SCADA could all be interchangeable depending on the engineer involved. i have one engineer i deal with that considers an OIT to be a wall-mounted operator screen as opposed to a desktp computer, which he calls an HMI. funny part is, they are literally the same thing. Operator Interface Terminal versus Human-Machine Interface. the list goes on, all the way to AITs and such.
i also thought it was funny there was a change industry-wide from using MMI (man-machine interface) due to the "man" part.