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• dread high-bit disease: n. A condition endemic to PRIME (a.
  k.a. PR1ME) minicomputers that results in all the characters having their high (0x80) bit ON rather than OFF....
• pistol: [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• pistol n. [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  Unix rm * makes such a nice pistol!...
• C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup...
• There must be more to life than having everything. -- Maurice Sendak
• THE AIR FORCE does it and aims high.
• dread high-bit disease n. A condition endemic to some now-obsolete computers and peripherals (including ASR-33 teletypes and PRIME minicomputers) that results in all characters having their high (0x80) bit forced on.
  This of course makes transporting files to other systems much more difficult, not to mention the problems these machines have talking with true 8-bit devices....