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• DPB: /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
  To plop something down in the middle. Usage: silly....
• LDB: /l*'d*b/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
  To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please....
• LDB /l*'d*b/ vt. [from the PDP-10 instruction set] To extract from the middle.
  LDB me a slice of cake, please." This usage has been kept alive by Common LISP's function of the same name....
• PDP-10 n. [Programmed Data Processor model 10] The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• 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....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• wab /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the dd(1) option conv=swab (see dd)] 1.
  vt. To solve the NUXI problem big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, bytesexual....
• flavor n. 1. [common] Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors.
  These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones....