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Lunatic Fringe N. [IBM] Customers Who Can Be Relied Upon To Accept Release 1 Versions Of Software.
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lunatic fringe n.
[IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to
accept release 1 versions of software. Compare heatseeker.
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lunatic fringe: [IBM] n. Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
heatseeker n. [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe).
A 1993 example of a heatseeker was someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
heatseeker: [IBM] n. A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the {lunatic fringe}).
A 1993 example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
The lunatic fringe begins here.
ewsfroup // n. [Usenet] Silly synonym for newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's talk.
bizarre, and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, pr0n and fi...
ewsfroup: // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for {newsgroup}, originally a typo but now in regular use on USENET's talk.
bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare {hing}, {grilf}, and {filk}....
beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
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