Get back under your bridge

You're trolling me right? You can't really be that thick. If you are in context for engineering then yes, PNP refers to transistors (not wafers, which are composed of millions of PNP junctions).

However, if I talk about network cards in servers then PNP refers to Plug and Play (or Pray), a protocol used to collect information about cards plugged into the ... ok, you successfully trolled me. Update: Comments withdrawn because they were stupid.

As a boredom-cure, I went and found other things that PNP could stand for:
Personal NewsPaper
The Peoples National Party of Jamaica
Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Polish National Parks
Poisson-Nersnt-Planck Equation (for ions in bulk electrolyte)

Somebody's going to get a real suprise when they search the monastery for PNP :D

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

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Re: Get back under your bridge by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jan 13, 2001 at 06:01 UTC
Actually, no, I wasn't trolling. I simply found it unlikely that anyone would know what bus-mastering was, and know that PNP was a transistor type, without knowing what plug-n-play was. I assumed, instead, that you didn't know what he was talking about concerning the transistors. I further assumed that he was rattling on about PNP transistors in order to torment/troll/menace his sysadmin, who looked down upon power users such as himself. But I didn't feel the need to mention that. Don't take it personal; I just have a thing against despotic sysadmins, and perhaps sysadmins in general. I was abused by one as a child, and I've not been the same since...	[reply]
Re: Get back under your bridge by Caillte (Friar) on Jan 12, 2001 at 15:02 UTC
I did a PNP dump when I installed them, but how do you explain that to someone who thinks PNP is a transistor type? You're trolling me right? You can't really be that thick. Yes, he probably is trolling ;) Remember, sarcasm is best served with a side order of humour.	[reply]