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• The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor.
  Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can see only a very few things at once....
• when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
  -- Fred Brook...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• pizza box n. [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• pizza box: [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• 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)....
• whalesong n. The peculiar clicking and whooshing sounds made by a PEP modem such as the Telebit Trailblazer as it tries to synchronize with another PEP modem for their special high-speed mode.
  This sound isn't anything like the normal two-tone handshake between conventional V-series modems and is instantly recognizable to anyone who has heard it more than once....
• whalesong: n. The peculiar clicking and whooshing sounds made by a PEP modem such as the Telebit Trailblazer as it tries to synchronize with another PEP modem for their special high-speed mode.
  This sound isn't anything like the normal two-tone handshake between conventional modems and is instantly recognizable to anyone who has heard it more than once....