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Jargon File
- Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ n.
[from `berserk', via
the name of a now-deceased record label;
poss. originated by famed
columnist Herb Caen] Humorous...
- beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used...
- BFI /B-F-I/ n.
See brute force and ignorance. Also
encountered in the variants `BFMI',
`brute force and
massive ignorance' and `BFBI' `brute...
- bible n.
1. One of a small number of fundamental source
books such as Knuth,
K&R, or the Cam
most detailed and authoritative...
- BiCapitalization n.
The act said to have been performed on
trademarks (such as PostScript,
NeXT, NeWS, VisiCalc,
FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter)...
- B1FF /bif/ [Usenet] (alt. `BIFF') n.
The most famous
pseudo,
and the prototypical newbie. Articles from B1FF
...
- BI //
Common written abbreviation for Breidbart
Index...
- biff /bif/ vt.
To notify someone of incoming mail.
From
the BSD utility biff(1), which was in turn...
- Big Gray Wall n.
What faces a VMS user searching for
documentation.
A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation...
- big iron n.
[common] Large, expensive, ultra-fast
computers.
Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers
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