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• TEX is potentially the most significant invention in typesetting in this century.
  It introduces a standard language for computer typography, and in terms of importance could rank near the introduction of the Gutenberg press....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
  -- Henry George...
• Over the past century, the most significant contribution of technology has been to make people's lives more comfortable.
• 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')....
• big-endian: [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] adj.
  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')....
• 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....
• CrApTeX /krap'tekh/ n. [University of York, England] Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else).
  The non-TeX-enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e....