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Winchester n. Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion.
There is a legend that the name...
windoid n. In the Macintosh world, a style of window with much less adornment (smaller or missing title bar, zoom box, etc, etc) than a standard window.
window shopping n. [US Geological Survey] Among users of WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
This activity...
Windoze /win'dohz/ n. See Microsloth Windows.
winged comments n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to boxed comments.
In C, for example: d = sqrt(x*x + y*y)...
winkey n. (alt. `winkey face') See emoticon.
winnage /win'*j/ n. The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is winning.
winner 1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person.
2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under user)....
winnitude /win'*-t[y]ood/ n. The quality of winning (as opposed to winnage, which is the result of winning).
Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP interpreter runs twi...
Wintel n. Microsoft Windows plus Intel - the tacit alliance that dominated desktop computing in the 1990s.
Now (1999) possibly on the verge of breaking up under pressure from Linux; see L...

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