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• idecar: n. 1. Syn. {slap on the side}. Esp. used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr.
  2. The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga....
• lap on the side n. (also called a sidecar, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• lap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• blue box n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band
  one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls....
• Amiga n A series of personal computer models originally sold by Commodore
  based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither....
• fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....