[TriLUG] What did the PS in PS/2 stand for?

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I used to hear that it meant "half the PC, twice the price"
Ron Young
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----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws>
Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 12:57 pm
Subject: [TriLUG] What did the PS in PS/2 stand for?

> So here's a trivia question for the old school IBMers who frequent 
> the 
> list.  Does anyone know what the PS in the IBM PS/2's name stood 
> for?  
> Someone asked me earlier today was asking why the PS2 keyboard port 
> was 
> labeled as such (their explanation referred to the playstation 2... 
> :), 
> and I knew it was derived from the PS/2, but not what the actual PS 
> in 
> that name stood for.
> 
> Anyone?  :)
> Aaron S. Joyner
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