AMD

1. company Advanced Micro Devices.

2. jargon According to Don Olivier

[email protected], his system manager came in to work one

morningn to find his IBM system down with a message on the

console that said "AMD failure". After he and the service rep

had puzzled over documentation for an hour or so they called

headquarters and eventually learned that it the failure was in

the cooling system: an AMD is an "air movement device", IBM

for "fan".

(1995-01-16)