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• brochureware: n. Planned but non-existent product like {vaporware}, but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures).
  Brochureware is often deployed as a strategic weapo...
• vaporware /vay'pr-weir/ n. Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
  See also brochureware....
• vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ n. Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
  See also {brochureware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• The following appeared in a memorandum issued by the strategic planning department at Omni Inc.
  "Mesa Foods, a manufacturer of snack foods that currently markets its products within a relatively small region of the country, has strong growth potential....
• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
• Quote #601 Most documentation starts as hastily scrawled notes from sleep-deprived developers who weren't necessarily hired for their keen communication skills.
  Those notes are then fleshed out by recently graduated English majors who have spent their last four years immersed in works of fiction....
• 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....
• heatseeker n. [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe).
  A 1993 example of a heatseeker was someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
• heatseeker: [IBM] n. A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the {lunatic fringe}).
  A 1993 example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....