- beam vt.
[from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up,
Scotty!"] 1.
To transfer softcopy of a file electronically; most... - beanie key n.
[Mac users] See command key... - beep n.,v.
Syn. feep. This term is techspeak under
MS-DOS and OS/2,
and seems to be generally preferred among micro ... - Befunge n.
A worthy companion to INTERCAL;
a computer language family which escapes the quotidian... - beige toaster n.
A Macintosh. See toaster; compare
Macintrash,
maggotbox... - bells and whistles n.
[common] Features added to a
program or system to make it more flavorful from a hacker's
point of view,
without necessarily adding to its utility for its ... - bells whistles and gongs n.
A standard elaborated form of
bells and whistles;
typically said with a pronounced and ironic accent... - benchmark n.
[techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer
performance.
"In the computer industry, there are three kinds of... - Berkeley Quality Software adj.
(often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative... - berklix /berk'liks/ n.,adj.
[contraction of `Berkeley
Unix'] See BSD.
Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common...
