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• Wintel n. Microsoft Windows plus Intel - the tacit alliance that dominated desktop computing in the 1990s.
  Now (1999) possibly on the verge of breaking up under pressure from Linux; see Lintel....
• Brief History Of Linux (#15) Too many hyphens: Traf-O-Data and Micro-soft Bill Gates and Paul Allen attended an exclusive private school in Seattle.
  In 1968, after raising $3,000 from a yard sale, they gained access to a timeshare computer and became addicted....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
  The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
• virtual beer n. Praise or thanks. Used universally in the Linux community.
  Originally this term signified cash, after a famous incident in which some some Britishers who wanted to buy Linus a beer and sent him money to Finland to do so....
• Rebel Alliance Diplomatic Dispatch...
• Linux Ported to Homer Simpson's Brain SPRINGFIELD -- Slashdot recently reported on Homer Simpson's brain "upgrade" to an Intel CPU.
  Intel hails the CPU transplant as the "World's Greatest Technological Achievement"....
• Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Linus Torvalds SILLYCON VALLEY -- Nearly 130 former system administrators have filed suit against Linus Torvalds in which they claim Linux cost them their jobs.
  Recently several companies migrated from Windows to Linux, increasing their productivity but decreasing the need for a large staff of tech workers, prompting a wave of layoffs....
• killer app The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology.
  First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs....