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video toaster n.
videotex n. obs.
virgin adj. Unused; pristine; in a known initial state.
"Let's bring up a virgin system and see if it crashes again....
virtual adj. [via the technical term `virtual memory', prob.
from the term `virtual image' in optics] 1. Common alternative to logical...
virtual beer n. Praise or thanks. Used universally in the Linux community.
virtual Friday n. (also `logical Friday') The last day before an extended weekend, if that day is not a `real' Friday.
For example, the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. ...
virtual reality n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation.
See cyberspace. 2. A form of network...
virtual shredder n. The jargonic equivalent of the bit bucket at shops using IBM's VM/CMS operating system.
VM/ officially supports a whole bestiary of virtual card readers, virtual printe...
virus n.
visionary n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
(There isn't any...

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