from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
AMD
1. <company> {Advanced Micro Devices}.
2. <jargon> According to Don Olivier
<[email protected]>, his system manager came in to work one
morning 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)