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PDLD: Power Down and Lock Door [to computer room]
PDL: /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
PDP-20: n. The most famous computer that never was.
{PDP-10} computers running the {{TOPS-10}} operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11....
PD: /P-D/ adj. Common abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over {USENET} and from Internet archive sites.
Much of this software is not in fact public domain in ...
PD: Play Dead
PD: Punch Disk
P. D. Q. Bach's life proves, if proof be needed, the importance of a sound musical education.
-- Prof. Peter Schickele (?)...
PDSK: Punch DiSK
PDUMP 99 blocks of crud on the disk, 99 blocks of crud!
You patch a bug, and dump it again: 100 blocks of crud on the disk!...

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