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• Information Processing: What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with it they won't let it be discussed in their presence.
• Data: "Neural connection is complete. I have access to the Borg subspace signal.
  Processing...processing." Troi: "Data..." Data: "Standby....
• I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
  The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957...
• I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
  -- Business Book Editor, Prentice Hall, 1957...
• buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....
• Local Area Network (LAN): High-tech cousin of the mainframe nominally designed to allow people to share information and snoop into personal letters and resumes queued for the laser printer.
  True rationale is to (a) sell hardware, and (b) build data processing (DP) empires....
• I have travelled the length and breadth of this country, and have talked with the best people in business administration.
  I can assure you on the highest authority that data processing is a fad and won't last out the year....
• Recursion: n. See Recursion. -- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary