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• fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar).
  Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC....
• fum: [XEROX PARC] n. At PARC, often the third of the standard {metasyntactic variable}s (after {foo} and {bar}).
  Competes with {baz}, which is more common outside PARC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dirtball n. [XEROX PARC] A small, perhaps struggling outside
  ot in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• printing discussion n. [XEROX PARC] A protracted, low-level, time-consuming, generally pointless discussion of something only peripherally interesting to all.
• dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outside
  not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n. The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
  For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....
• error 33 [XEROX PARC] n. 1. Predicating one research effort upon the success of another.
  2. Allowing your own research effort to be placed on the critical path of some other project (be it a research effort or not)....
• printing discussion: [XEROX PARC] n. A protracted, low-level, time-consuming, generally pointless discussion of something only peripherally interesting to all.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• XEROX PARC: /zee'roks park'/ The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
  For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreakioool Junior....