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• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• o the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with.
  .." "EBCDIC!" -- From a collection of University of Waterloo Computer/Math class quote...
• killer app The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology.
  First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs....
• Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with .
  .. Student: EBCDIC!...
• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
  -- Michaelangelo...
• big-endian adj. [common; From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1.
  Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first')....
• Solving The Virus Problem Once And For All System administrators across the globe have tried installing anti-virus software.
  They've tried lecturing employees not to open unsolicited email attachments....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• Unix brain damage n. Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems.
  The hack may qualify as `Unix brain damage' if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not....