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GECOS /jee'kohs/ N. See GCOS.
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GECOS /jee'kohs/ n.
See GCOS.
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GCOS /jee'kohs/ n. A quick-and-dirty clone of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System)....
GCOS:: /jee'kohs/ n. A {quick-and-dirty} {clone} of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System)....
macrology /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.
g., as part of a large system written in LISP, TECO, or (less commonly) assembler....
macrology: /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.
g., as part of a large system written in {LISP}, {TECO}, or (less commonly) assembler....
boxology /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings.
His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology....
boxology: /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. {ASCII art}. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings.
"His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare {macrology}....
anotechnology /nan'-oh-tek-no`l*-jee/ n. A hypothetical fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom.
The first unequivocal nanofabrication experiments took place in 1990, for example with the deposition of individual xenon atoms on a nickel substrate to spell the logo of a certain very large computer company....
anotechnology:: /nan'-oh-tek-no`l*-jee/ n. A hypothetical fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom.
The first unequivocal nanofabrication experiments took place in 1990, for example with the deposition of individual xenon atoms on a nickel substrate to spell the logo of a certain very large computer company....
magic 1. adj. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explai
compare automagically and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law...