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digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
[dignified silence]
Dignity and an empty sack are worth an empty sack. -- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #109
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle (384-322BC)
Dignity is like a top hat. Neither is very much use when you are standing on it.
-- Chistopher Holli...
DIIL Disable Interrupts and enter Infinite Loop
dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that i...
Dilige et quos vis fac. [Love and do what you will] -- St. Augustine (A.D. 354-430)
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 412...
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.
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