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DEVICEHIGH: Your device driver on drugs.
Device: Medieval torture instrument such as thumbscrew, iron maiden. -- Computing Definitio
device not ready
DEVIL A popular character in mythology, commonly blamed by Christians for everything from plagues to burnt toast.
Of course, if the devil ever actually appeared, it would scare these people shi...
Devil Book: n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
-- Tennessee William...
Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act i, Sc. 2...
dev/null: /dev-nuhl/ [from the UNIX null device, used as a data sink] n.
A notional `black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to....
devo: /dee'voh/ [orig. in-house jargon at Symbolics] n.
A person in a development group. See also {doco} and {mango}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
DEWEY, MELVIL (1851-1931) American librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system for categorising books in libraries.
Unfortunately, he died long before the widespread use of computers, meani...

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