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milliLampson /mil'*-lamp`sn/ n. A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL.
Most people run about 200 milliLampsons....
minifloppies n.,obs. 5.25-inch vanilla floppy disks, as opposed to 3.
5-inch or microfloppies and the now-obsolescent 8-inch variety....
MIPS /mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed
formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
misbug /mis-buhg/ n. [MIT; rare (like its referent)] An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful
something that should have been a bug but turns out to be a feature....
misfeature /mis-fee'chr/ or /mis'fee`chr/ n. [common] A feature that eventually causes lossage, possibly because it is not adequate for a new situation that has evolved.
Since it results fro...
Missed'em-five n. Pejorative hackerism for AT&
T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood....
missile address n. See ICBM address.
miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
For example, in some versions of...
MMF // [Usenet; common] Abbreviation: "Make Money Fast".
Refers to any kind of scheme which promises participants large profits with little or no risk or effort....
mobo /moh'bo/ Written and (rarely) spoken contraction of "motherboard

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