[COFF] Building OS from source in the olden days

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>> 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.

Yeah, they did have a habit of being permanent, but I don't recall
them ever being called by any of those names during my servitude.

-- Dave