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Otary Debugger N. [Commodore] Essential Equipment For Those Late-night Or Early-morning Debugging Sessions.
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rotary debugger n.
[Commodore] Essential equipment for
those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used
as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such
as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage. See ANSI standard pizza.
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otary debugger: [Commodore] n. Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions.
Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage....
ANSI standard pizza /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor....
pizza, ANSI standard: /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor....
ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
programming fluid n. 1. Coffee. 2. Cola. 3. Any caffeinacious stimulant.
Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs. See wirewater....
programming fluid: n. 1. Coffee. 2. Cola. 3. Any caffeinacious stimulant.
Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs....
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....
Berkeley Quality Software adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
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....