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• FISH queue: [acronym, by analogy with FIFO (First In, First Out)] n.
  `First In, Still Here'. A joking way of pointing out that processing of a particular sequence of events or requests has stopped dead....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• decay: [from nuclear physics] n.,vi. An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in {C}
  hey `decay into' pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• otwork: /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting {flaky} or is {down}.
  Compare {nyetwork}. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca....
• mouse droppings: [MS-DOS] n. Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the scree
  producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind....
• INSQSW Insert into queue somewhere (for FINO queues [First in never out])
• Infinite-Monkey Theorem: n. "If you put an {infinite} number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
  (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....