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• I see your point... and raise you a line. -- Elliot Smorodinsky
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....
• quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Systè
  me International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses....
• Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
  Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
• Foonly n. 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system.
  (The name itself came from FOO NLI, an error message emitted by a PDP-10 assembler at SAIL meaning "FOO is Not a Legal Identifier"....
• feature n. 1. [common] A good property or behavior (as of a program).
  Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...