softcopy /soft'kop-ee/ n.
[by analogy with `hardcopy']
A machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy. See bits,
machinable.
[by analogy with `hardcopy']
A machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy. See bits,
machinable.
Related:
- softcopy: /soft'kop-ee/ n. [by analogy with `hardcopy'] A
machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy.
See {bits}, {machinable}. -- The AI Hackers... - machinable adj.
Machine-readable.
Having the softcopy nature... - machinable: adj. Machine-readable. Having the {softcopy} nature.
The AI Hackers... - bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file
formats." ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core
dump},
sense 4. 2. Machine-readable representation of a document... - bits pl.n.
1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits
about file formats." ("I need to know about file formats.")
Compare core dump,
sense 4. 2. Machine-readable representation of... - soft boot n.
See boot... - vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n.
[analogy with
`ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers
who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are
valid (esp.
under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among ... - nybble /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') n.
[from v.
`nibble' by analogy with `bite' =>
`byte'] Four bits; one hex digit; a half-byte. ... - desk check n.,v.
To grovel over hardcopy of source
code,
mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching...
From the same category:
- boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n.
[very common; by analogy with
VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the
phrase `Unix boxen',
used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation... - splat n.
1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and
others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010).
This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance... - Real World n.
1. Those institutions at which
`programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN',
`COBOL', `RPG', `IBM', `DBASE', etc. Places where... - gritch /grich/
[MIT] 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a
glitch).
2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled: "Gritch ... - talker system n.
British hackerism for software that enables real...
