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• vaporware /vay'pr-weir/ n. Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
  See also brochureware....
• math-out: [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] n.
  A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible....
• brochureware: n. Planned but non-existent product like {vaporware}, but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures).
  Brochureware is often deployed as a strategic weapo...
• hareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself.
  Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality....
• charityware: /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. {careware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• etwork meltdown: n. A state of complete network overload
  he network equivalent of {thrash}ing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}....
• 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})....
• UN*X: n. Used to refer to the UNIX operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly {(TM)} typography.
  Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems....
• it: /trit/ [by analogy with `bit'] n. One base-3 digi
  he amount of information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally likely outcomes (see also {bit})....