[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-03-01, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote 2012-03-01 20:25:
>>
>> In this context, DOA means "Dead On Arrival", as in it didn't work
>> when it was brand new out of the box (for hardware) or when freshly
>> installed (for software).
>>
> Of course I do know what "DOA" means in general, but not
> what VAXman ment with it in detail in that context.
> And, which was my point, it was not "DOA" for me.

We have recently had a discussion in comp.os.vms in which a common word
or idiom was not obvious to one of the non-native English speakers here.

I thought this was another example. Sorry. :-)

Simon.

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