:chine nual: /sheen'yu-*l/ [MIT] n.,obs. The LISP Machine Manual, so
called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those
letters showed on the front.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those
letters showed on the front.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- Yu-Shiang Whole Fish: /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001)... - Silver Book: n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual
and Report",
so called because of the silver cover of the widely... - Wizard Book: n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT
Press,
1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science... - Cinderella Book: [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory,
Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey... - stiffy: [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.5-inch
{microfloppies},
so called because their jackets are more rigid than... - Yu-Shiang Whole Fish /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001)... - pubic directory: [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob'
d*-rek't*-ree/) n.
The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows... - Silver Book n.
Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal
User Manual and Report",
so called because of the silver cover of the widely... - fepped out: /fept owt/ adj. The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a
Front-End Processor called a `FEP' (compare sense 2 of {box}).
When the main processor gets {wedged}, the FEP takes...
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- The other day, I was walking my dog around my building.
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exceeds triple the restraining speed... - I was kicked out of the boy scouts for eating a
brownie....... - The opulence of the front office is inversely proportional to the
fundamental solvency of the organization.
Law of... - Cigarette, n.:
A fire at one end, a fool at the other,
and a bit of tobacco in between...
