[COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 15:54:06 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> Right!  There's a TLA that rings a bell.  "Permanent Temporary Fix"?
>
> Program Temporary Fix.

Yes.  But I recall correctly.  See the Wikipedia page:

  Customers sometimes explain the acronym in a tongue-in-cheek manner
  as permanent temporary fix or more practically probably this fixes,
  because they have the option to make the PTF a permanent part of the
  operating system if the patch fixes the problem.

Greg
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