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• its on a keyboard n. Small bumps on certain keycaps to keep touch-typists registered.
  Usually on the 5 of a numeric keypad, and on the F and J of a QWERTY keyboard...
• 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....
• chiclet keyboard: n. A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of chewing gum.
  (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards....
• QWERTY: /kwer'tee/ [from the keycaps at the upper left] adj.
  Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layouts or a {space-cadet keyboard} or APL keyboard....
• quadruple bucky: n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key.
  2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard....
• hexit: /hek'sit/ n. A hexadecimal digit (0--9, and A--F or a--f).
  Used by people who claim that there are only *ten* digits, dammi...
• EOF: /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] The {out-of-band} value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached.
  This value is -1 under C libraries postdating V6 UNIX, but was originally 0....
• pastie: /pay'stee/ n. An adhesive-backed label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key.
  Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character....
• QWERTY /kwer'tee/ adj. [from the keycaps at the upper left] Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor)
  as opposed to Dvorak or non-US-ASCII layouts or a space-cadet keyboard or APL keybo Historical note...