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Originally Posted by karlos devel View Post
What is ETA? some body know?
"Estimated Time to Arrival (ETA)":
Originally used on displays at train stations and airports ("ETA: hh:mm" indicating the expected arrival time), the term ETA made its way via some classic UNIX command line tools (e.g. ftp, where "ETA: X seconds" indicates the remaining up- or download time) into (UNIX-) nerd speech.

The Urban Dictionary ("ud": either in the WWW or via the SFOS app "Unofficial Urban Dictionary") should provide you with most such nerd language explanations.

Last edited by olf; 2017-06-11 at 01:41.
 

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