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• meta bit: n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255.
  Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or {hobbit}....
• bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
  The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character se...
• 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...
• alt: /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or {clone} keyboard
  ee {bucky bits}, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard
  ee bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• alt bit /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj. See meta bit.
• byte /bi:t/ n. [techspeak] A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....
• byte:: /bi:t/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....