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Jargon File
- Bloggs Family n.
An imaginary family consisting of
Fred and Mary Bloggs and their children.
Used as a standard
example in knowledge representation...
- blow an EPROM /bloh *n ee'prom/ v.
(alt. `blast an
EPROM',
`burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.g...
- blow away vt.
To remove (files and directories) from
permanent storage,
generally by accident. "He reformatted the
wrong...
- blow out vi.
[prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] Of
software,
to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as crash and...
- blow past vt.
To blow out despite a safeguard.
"The
server blew past the 5K reserve buffer...
- blow up vi.
1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly...
- BLT /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ n.,vt.
Synonym
for blit.
This is the original form of blit and the
ancestor...
- Blue Book n.
1. Informal name for one of the four standard
references on the page-layout and graphics-control language
PostScript ("PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook",
Adobe...
- 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...
- Blue Glue n.
[IBM] IBM's SNA (Systems Network
Architecture),
an incredibly losing and bletcherous
communications...
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