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• 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...
• PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
• For discussion only. Not to be relied upon.
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• forum n. [Usenet, GEnie, CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in BBS
  a mailing list, or a newsgroup (see postings for all to read and discussion ensues....
• PostScript n. A Page Description Language (PDL)
  based on work originally done by John Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through `JaM' (`John and Martin', Martin Newell) at XEROX PARC, and finally implemented in its current form by John Warnock et al....
• PostScript:: n. A Page Description Language ({PDL})
  based on work originally done by John Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through `JaM' (`John and Martin', Martin Newell) at {XEROX PARC}, and finally implemented in its current form by John Warnock et al....
• fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar).
  Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC....
• forum: n. [USENET, GEnie, CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in {BBS}, a {mailing list}, or a {newsgroup} (see {network, the}).
  A forum functions much like a bulletin board; users submit {posting}s for all to read and discussion ensues....