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LDB /l*'d*b/ Vt. [from The PDP-10 Instruction Set] To Extract From The Middle.
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LDB /l*'d*b/ vt.
[from the PDP-10 instruction set] To
extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please." This
usage has been kept alive by Common LISP's function of the same
name. Considered silly. See also DPB.
Related:
LDB: /l*'d*b/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please....
DPB: /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
To plop something down in the middle. Usage: silly....
DPB /d*-pib'/ vt. [from the PDP-10 instruction set] To plop something down in the middle.
Usage: silly. "DPB yourself into that couch there....
PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt. [from LISP] To skip past the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP operation on binary tree structure
which returns a list consisting of all but the first element of its argument)....
cat [from `catenate' via Unix cat(1)] vt. 1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause.
2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully....
cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
[techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....
PDP-10 n. [Programmed Data Processor model 10] The machine that made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
cdr: /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ [from LISP] vt. To skip past the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP operation on binary tree structure
which returns a list consisting of all but the first element of its argument)....