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MicroReid /mi:'kroh-reed/ N. See MicroLenat.
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microReid /mi:'kroh-reed/ n.
See microLenat.
Related:
microLenat /mi:`-kroh-len'-*t/ n. The unit of bogosity.
consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use....
microLenat: /mi:`-kroh-len'-*t/ n. The unit of {bogosity}, written uL
he consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use....
Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}.
Hackerism(s) for `Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition....
Microsloth Windows: /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. Hackerism for `Microsoft Windows'
a windowing system for the IBM-PC which is so limited by bug-for-bug compatibility with {mess-dos} that it is agonizingly slow on anything less than a fast 486....
anofortnight n. [Adelaide University] 1 fortnight * 10^(-9), or about 1.
2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....
microtape: /mi:'kroh-tayp/ n. Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a {macrotape}.
A DECtape is a small reel, about 4 inches in diameter, of magnetic tape about an inch wide....
bogosity: /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}.
At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
breedle n. See feep.
eply n. See followup.