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Dragon Book n. The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V.
Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986...
drain v. [IBM] Syn. for flush (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about i
one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline....
dread high-bit disease n.
Dread Questionmark Disease n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1
he symptom is that various of those ...
DRECNET /drek'net/ n. [from Yiddish/German `dreck', meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community.
So called because DEC helped write the...
driver n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program
he code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
droid n. [from `android', SF terminology for a humanoid robot of essentially biological (as opposed to mechanical/electronic) construction] A person (esp.
a low-level bureaucrat or service...
drone n. Ignorant sales or customer service personnel in computer or electronics superstores.
drool-proof paper n.
drop on the floor vt. To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data.
The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the flo...

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