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• oftcopy: /soft'kop-ee/ n. [by analogy with `hardcopy'] A machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy.
  See {bits}, {machinable}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• machinable adj. Machine-readable. Having the softcopy nature.
• machinable: adj. Machine-readable. Having the {softcopy} nature. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....
• bits pl.n. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare core dump, sense 4....
• oft boot n. See boot.
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• ybble /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') n. [from v. `nibble' by analogy with `bite' =&g
  `byte'] Four bits; one hex digit; a half-byte. Though `byte' is now techspeak, this useful relative is still jargon....
• desk check n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
  a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers -- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....