Re: DAO ?
Message #3 Posted by glynn on 6 Jan 2002, 1:19 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina)
Yes, in american pop culture, this term "DOA" came about because emergency hospitals and paramedics use this designation. A "DAS" (Dead At Scene) was a corpse prior to transport to the morgue section of a hospital. "DOA" is a patient who did not make it alive on the trip to the hospital emergency room.
While it doesn't make a lot of sense to classify material things like electronics in terms like this, the use of the term on television and in movies has led "DOA" to just be a general euphemism for something already dead (non-functional) before you got to it... especially something that may be beyond practical repair.
Of course, thibaut, those doing the classifying may not know "dead" from "needs work".
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