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• fontology n. [XEROX PARC] The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.
  g., for window systems and typesetting software)....
• Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny!
• window shopping: [US Geological Survey] n. Among users of {WIMP environment}s like {X} or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• PostScript:: n. A Page Description Language ({PDL})
  based on work originally done by John Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through `JaM' (`John and Martin', Martin Newell) at {XEROX PARC}, and finally implemented in its current form by John Warnock et al....
• WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....
• dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outside
  not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• cookbook: [from amateur electronics and radio] n. A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs.
  One current example is the "{{PostScript}} Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the {Blue Book} which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts....