rotary debugger n.
[Commodore] Essential equipment for
those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used
as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such
as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage. See ANSI standard pizza.
[Commodore] Essential equipment for
those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used
as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such
as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage. See ANSI standard pizza.
Related:
- rotary debugger: [Commodore] n. Essential equipment for those
late-night or early-morning debugging sessions.
Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes... - ANSI standard pizza /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/
[CMU]
Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by... - pizza, ANSI standard: /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni
and mushroom pizza.
Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by... - ANSI /an'see/
1. n. [techspeak] The American National
Standards Institute.
ANSI, along with the International Organization ... - programming fluid n.
1. Coffee. 2. Cola. 3. Any
caffeinacious stimulant.
Many hackers consider these essential for those... - programming fluid: n. 1. Coffee. 2. Cola. 3. Any caffeinacious
stimulant.
Many hackers consider these essential for those ... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so... - Berkeley Quality Software adj.
(often abbreviated `BQS')
Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was
apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to
solve some unique problem.
It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect... - byte /bi:t/ n.
[techspeak] A unit of memory or data equal to
the amount used to represent one character;
on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits,...
From the same category:
- bit n.
[from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT']
1.
[techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of... - automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ adv.
Automatically,
but in a way that, for some reason (typically because... - molly-guard /mol'ee-gard/ n.
[University of Illinois] A
shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or
ignorant hands.
Originally used of the plexiglass covers ... - line starve
[MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer
the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - spool file n.
Any file to which data is spooled to
await the next stage of processing.
Especially used in circumstances where spooling...
