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  • lunatic fringe
    [IBM] n. Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.


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    nano

    /nan'oh/ [CMU from `nanosecond'] n. A brief period of time. "Be with you in a nano" means you really will be free shortly, i.e., implies what mainstream people mean by "in a jiffy" (whereas the hackish use of `jiffy' is quite different --- see jiffy).