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MicroDroid n. [Usenet] A Microsoft employee, esp.
one who posts to various operating-system advocacy newsgroups....
microfloppies n. 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.
25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety....
microfortnight n. 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measureme
1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel...
microLenat /mi:`-kroh-len'-*t/ n. The unit of bogosity.
consensus is that this is the largest unit practical for everyday use....
microReid /mi:'kroh-reed/ n. See microLenat.
microserf /mi
Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}.
Hackerism(s) for `Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extensi...
Microsoft The new Evil Empire (the old one was IBM).
middle-endian adj. Not big-endian or little-endian.
middle-out implementation See bottom-up implementation.

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