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TechRef /tek'ref/ N. [MS-DOS] The Original "IBM PC Technical Reference Manual", Including The BIOS Listing And Complete Schematics For The PC.
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TechRef /tek'ref/ n.
[MS-DOS] The original "IBM PC
Technical Reference Manual", including the BIOS listing and
complete schematics for the PC. The only PC documentation in the
original-issue package that was considered serious by real
hackers.
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TechRef: /tek'ref/ [MS-DOS] n. The original "IBM PC Technical Reference Manual", including the BIOS listing and complete schematics for the PC.
The only PC documentation in the issue package that's considered serious by real hackers....
MS-DOS...The ultimate PC Viru
Brief History Of Linux (#17) If only Gary had been sober When Micro-soft moved to Seattle in 1979
most of its revenue came from sales of BASIC, a horrible language so dependant on GOTOs that spaghetti looked more orderly than its code did....
Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....
monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
Hackers: A programmer who grew up tapping out Morse Code on a ham radio, and has never forgiven IBM for not putting a front switch panel on the original PC.
Classic C /klas'ik C/ n. [a play on `Coke Classic'] The C programming language as defined in the first edition of K&
R, with some small additions. It is also known as `K&...
bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
all-elbows: [MS-DOS] adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on {BBS} system
unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident....