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• broken arrow: [IBM] n. The error code displayed on line 25 of a 3270 terminal (or a PC emulating a 3270) for various kinds of protocol violations and "unexpected" error conditions (including connection to a {down} computer).
  On a PC, simulated with `->/_', with the two center characters overstruck....
• 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&...
• 0 Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter `O' (the 15th letter of the English alphabet).
  In their unmodified forms they look a lot alike, and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct have compounded the confusion....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• 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....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.