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Pod N. [allegedly From Abbreviation POD For `Prince Of Darkness'] A Diablo 630 (or, Latterly, Any Letter-quality Impact Printer).
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pod n.
[allegedly from abbreviation POD for `Prince Of
Darkness'] A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact
printer). From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted
text to it. Not to be confused with P.O.D..
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pod: [allegedly from abbreviation POD for `Prince Of Darkness'] n.
A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact printer)....
P.O.D. /P-O-D/ [rare] Acronym for `Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section).
See also pod....
P.O.D.: /P-O-D/ Acronym for `Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section).
Usage: pedantic and rare. See also {pod}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
cuspy: /kuhs'pee/ [WPI: from the {DEC} abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1....
cuspy /kuhs'pee/ adj. [WPI: from the DEC abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
e., a utility program used by many people] 1. (of a program) Well-written....
geek code n. (also "Code of the Geeks"). A set of codes commonly used in sig blocks to broadcast the interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.
Features a G at the left margin followed by numerous letter codes, often suffixed with plusses or minuses....
In the 17th century, Kikaku, one of the ten disciples of the great Japanese poet Basho, composed a haiku
Take a pair of wings From a dragonfly, you would Make a pepper-pod....