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• fear and loathing: [from Hunter S. Thompson] n. A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous --- Intel 8086
  or {COBOL}, or {{EBCDIC}}, or any {IBM} machine except the Rios (a....
• EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ n.
  [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs....
• The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie.
  He's totally hooked... and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around...
• EBCDIC:: /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n.
  An alleged character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s....
• NetBOLLIX n. [from bollix: to bungle, or Britsish `bollocks'] IBM's NetBIOS
  an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better....
• NetBOLLIX: [from bollix: to bungle] n. {IBM}'s NetBIOS, an extremely {brain-damaged} network protocol that, like {Blue Glue}, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing. -- H.S. Thompso
• Real World n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `COBOL', `RPG', `IBM', `DBASE', etc.
  Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices....
• Real World: n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `{COBOL}', `RPG', `{IBM}', `DBASE', etc.
  Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices....