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Pentagram Pro n. A humorous corruption of "Pentium Pro", with a Satanic reference, implying that the chip is inherently evil.
Often used with "666 MHz"; there is a T-shirt. See Pentium...
Pentium n. The name given to Intel's P5 chip, the successor to the 80486.
The name was chosen because of difficulties Intel had in trademarking a number....
peon n. A person with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system.
I can't create an account on foovax for you; I'm only a peon there....
percent-S /per-sent' es'/ n. [From the code in C's printf(3) library function used to insert an arbitrary string argument] An unspecified person or object.
I was just talking to some pe...
perf /perf/ n. Syn. chad (sense 1). The term `perfory' /per'f*-ree/ is also heard.
perfect programmer syndrome n. Arrogance; the egotistical conviction that one is above normal human error.
Most frequently found among programmers of some native ability but relatively li...
Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
person of no account n. [University of California at Santa Cruz] Used when referring to a person with no network address, frequently to forestall confusion.
Most often as part of an intro...
pessimal /pes'im-l/ adj. [Latin-based antonym for `optimal'] Maximally bad.
This is a pessimal situation." Also `pessimize' vt....
pessimizing compiler /pes'*-mi:z`ing k*m-pi:l'r/ n.

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