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• macrology /mak-rol'*-jee/ n. 1. Set of usually complex or crufty macros, e.
  g., as part of a large system written in LISP, TECO, or (less commonly) assembler....
• boxology: /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. {ASCII art}. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings.
  "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare {macrology}....
• boxology /bok-sol'*-jee/ n. Syn. ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings.
  His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology....
• alt: /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or {clone} keyboard
  ee {bucky bits}, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• c file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n.
  Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• ystem: n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
  2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard
  ee bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• crufty: /kruhf'tee/ [origin unknown; poss. from `crusty'] adj.
  1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The {canonical} example is "This is standard old crufty {DEC} software"....