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• heatseeker n. [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe).
  A 1993 example of a heatseeker was someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
• lunatic fringe n. [IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
  Compare heatseeker....
• lunatic fringe: [IBM] n. Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• front end: n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end').
  2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention....
• OS/2: /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micro
  proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either....
• N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
  "There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
• OS/2 /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micro
  proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either....
• crippleware: n. 1. Software that has some important functionality deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working version.
  2. [Cambridge] {Guiltware} that exhorts you to donate to some charity (compare {careware}, {nagware})....
• demo: /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype.
  A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of {test} runs, especially when important people are watching....