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• eal estate: n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area.
  Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also {nanoacre})....
• fred: n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard....
• anoacre: /nan'oh-ay`kr/ n. A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI chip.
  The term gets its giggle value from the fact that VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one figures in design and fabrication-setup costs....
• oy problem: [AI] n. A deliberately oversimplified case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or test algorithms for a real problem.
  Sometimes used pejoratively. See also {gedanken}, {toy program}....
• bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
  1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET)....
• orthogonal: [from mathematics] adj. Mutually independe
  well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalization of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the entire `capability space' of the system and are in some sense non-overlapping or mutually independent....
• footprint: n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
  2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
• board: n. 1. In-context synonym for {bboard}; sometimes used even for USENET newsgroups (but see usage note under {bboard}, sense 1).
  2. An electronic circuit board. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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})....