swab
/swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte'
instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab'
(see {dd})] 1. vt. To solve the...FULL DEFINITION
beanie key
[Mac users] n. See {command key}.
elevator controller
n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems
application, like {toaster} (which superseded it). During one
period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the
...FULL DEFINITION
snark
[Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n. 1. A
system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would
get the message...FULL DEFINITION
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n. `The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD
UNIX Operating System', by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk
McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S....FULL DEFINITION
INTERCAL
/in't*r-kal/ [said by the authors to stand for
`Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] n. A
computer language designed by Don Woods and James...FULL DEFINITION
dumb terminal
n. A terminal which is one step above a {glass tty},
having a minimally-addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or
other features which are...FULL DEFINITION
killer poke
n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine
via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) in a memory-mapped
control register; used esp....FULL DEFINITION
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