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• mart terminal n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote server's storage, using local devices as displays....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• Asked how she felt being the first woman to make a major-league team
  he said, "Like a pig in mud," or words to that effect, and then turned and released a squirt of tobacco juice from the wad of rum soaked plug in her right cheek....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
  C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all....
• My neighbors don't like it when I talk to my plants... I use a megaphone.
• pizza box n. [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• pizza box: [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• During the White House Easter Egg Roll of 1991, Quayle signed autographs using only his finger.
  He had prepared pre-signed cards which his aides handed out while he made signing gestures....