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• beep: n.,v. Syn. {feep}. This term seems to be preferred among micro hobbyists.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. 1. Line printer (originally Line Printing Terminal).
  Rare under Unix, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
• feep: /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
  a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep})....
• feep /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
  a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep)....
• interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• interrupt 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• crudware /kruhd'weir/ n. Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
  Yet another set of disk catalog utilities for MS-DOS? What crudware!...
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...