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Open Switch N. [IBM: Prob. From Railroading] An Unresolved Question, Issue, Or Problem.
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open switch n.
[IBM: prob. from railroading] An
unresolved question, issue, or problem.
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open switch: [IBM: prob. from railroading] n. An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Suzie COBOL /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English....
Suzie COBOL: /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English....
Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp.
he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
visionary n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
(There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
(There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
Big Red Switch n. [IBM] The power switch on a computer, esp.
he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
wedgie n. [Fairchild] A bug. Prob. related to wedged.
exec /eg-zek'/ or /eks'ek/ vt., n. 1. [Unix: from `execute'] Synonym for chain, derives from the exec(2) call.
2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an OS (see shell)...