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• banana label: n. The labels often used on the sides of {macrotape} reels, so called because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas.
  This term, like macrotapes themselves, is still current but visibly headed for obsolescence....
• boxed comments n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• boxed comments: n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• pace-cadet keyboard n. A now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS.
  It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key...
• opic drift n. Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• ound tape n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
  See macrotape, oppose square tape....
• chiclet keyboard n. A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum.
  (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards....
• chiclet keyboard: n. A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum.
  (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards....