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• Yu-Shiang Whole Fish: /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
  The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page....
• Silver Book: n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Repo
  o called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2)....
• 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 text used in introductory courses at MIT....
• Cinderella Book: [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
  So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it....
• iffy: [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.
  5-inch {microfloppies}, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5....
• Yu-Shiang Whole Fish /yoo-shyang hohl fish/ n. obs.
  The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish swimming down the page....
• pubic directory: [NYU] (also `pube directory' /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) n.
  The `pub' (public) directory on a machine that allows {FTP} access....
• Silver Book n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Repo
  o called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2)....
• 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 control of the keyboard and screen....