To 86

[Alice Faber]

Drew Danielson wrote:
>"Philip E. Cleary" wrote:
>>
>> The following paragraph is from a CNET newsletter, which I received
>> yesterday.
>>
>> <We loved it, you hated it, we rethought it. That's right, in our
>> first take on Netscape 6, we generally gave the new browser the
>> thumbs up. But readers overwhelmingly 86'd the program. >
>>
>> Can anyone translate the verb "to 86" into English?
>
>I haven't a clue as to the origin of the verb, but I have heard it used
>as a synonym to, "to put [sth] in the circular file" and, "to trashcan"
>(or, less savorily, "to [bad word that means poo]can").

Well, given what else I've read about Netscape 6 on various tech
sites, in this instance, "uninstall" is clearly what's meant by "86".
A lot of people have found it very buggy and have gone back to
Netscape 4.7x (no, there never was a version 5!).

Alice
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