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Amiga Persecution Complex n.
amoeba n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
amp off vt. [Purdue] To run in background. From the Unix shell `&' operator.
amper n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&
', ASCII 0100110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms....
Angband n.
angle brackets n. Either of the characters < (ASCII 0111100) and &g
(ASCII 0111110) (ASCII less-than or greater-than signs)....
angry fruit salad n. A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors.
(This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit salad....
annoybot /*-noy-bot/ n. [IRC] See bot.
annoyware n. A type of shareware that frequently disrupts normal program operation to display requests for payment to the author in return for the ability to disable the request messages.
ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.

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