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Amoeba N. Humorous Term For The Commodore Amiga Personal Computer.
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amoeba n.
Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal
computer.
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amoeba: n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Amiga n A series of personal computer models originally sold by Commodore
based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither....
chicken head: [Commodore] n. The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part.
Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see {amoeba}), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky little {bitty box}es (see also {PETSCII})....
chicken head n. [Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was always called `chicken lips').
Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII)....
lap on the side n. (also called a sidecar, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
lap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
Commodore: text toaster. Amiga: Video Toaster.
Just because Commodore is toast, doesn't mean that Amiga is..
The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box.
-- Peter da Silva...