To 86

[Johanna N Franklin]

    And there was that thing this fall when RU-486 was approved... some
people thought that the name was code for "Are you for killing?" - "RU 4
86?"  I remember one very well known person saying this - I think it
might have been Pat Robertson - but it would suggest that "86" is some
sort of slang (relatively old, I think) for "to kill."

    Johanna

Excerpts from mail: 8-Feb-101 Re: To 86 by Alice Faber at HASKINS.YALE
> 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!).