real soon now

The term RSN, a three-letter abbreviation for Real Soon Now and originally used in the science fiction fanzine community, was popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE magazine. It is defined as follows:

Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical.
When one's gods, fates, or other time commitments permit one to get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath).

Besides occurring in many clearly humourous ironic/sarcastic writings, RSN is also sometimes informally used in preliminary (software) engineering project documentation, along with the more colloquial term "ASAP" (As Soon As Possible) as well as more formal/serious terms like TBA/TBC/TBD.

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