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Jargon File
- AFJ // n.
Written-only abbreviation for "April Fool's
Joke".
Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established...
- AFK
[MUD] Abbrev. for "Away From Keyboard". Used to notify
others that you will be momentarily unavailable online.
eg. "Let's not go kill that frost giant yet, I need...
- AI /A-I/ n.
Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence',
so common that the full form is almost never written...
- AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ adj.
[MIT, Stanford:
by
analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] Used to...
- AI koans /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n.
A series of pastiches of Zen
teaching riddles created...
- AIDS /aydz/ n.
Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*'
is a glob pattern that matches,
but is not limited to, Apple
or Amiga), this condition...
- AIDX /ayd'k*z/ n.
Derogatory term for IBM's perverted
version of Unix,
AIX, especially for the AIX 3.? used in the IBM
...
- airplane rule n.
"Complexity increases the possibility of
failure;
a twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems...
- Alderson loop n.
[Intel] A special version of an
infinite loop where there is an exit condition available,
but
inaccessible in the current implementation of...
- aliasing bug n.
A class of subtle programming errors that
can arise in code that does dynamic allocation,
esp. via
malloc(3) or equivalent. If several pointers...
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