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Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line.
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Node:winkey, Next:[14753]winnage, Previous:[14754]winged comments,
Up:[14755]= W =
winkey n.
(alt. `winkey face') See [14756]emoticon.
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Node:winnage, Next:[14757]winner, Previous:[14758]winkey, Up:[14759]=
W =
winnage /win'*j/ n.
The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is
winning.
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Node:winner, Next:[14760]winnitude, Previous:[14761]winnage,
Up:[14762]= W =
winner
1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person.
2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see
also the note under [14763]user). "He's a real winner -- never reports
a bug till he can duplicate it and send in an example."
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Node:winnitude, Next:[14764]Wintel, Previous:[14765]winner,
Up:[14766]= W =
winnitude /win'*-t[y]ood/ n.
The quality of winning (as opposed to [14767]winnage, which is the
result of winning). "Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now
the LISP interpreter runs twice as fast as it used to." "That's really
great! Boy, what winnitude!" "Yup. I'll probably get a half-hour's
winnage on the next run of my program." Perhaps curiously, the obvious
antonym `lossitude' is rare.
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Node:Wintel, Next:[14768]wired, Previous:[14769]winnitude, Up:[14770]=
W =
Wintel n.
Microsoft Windows plus Intel - the tacit alliance that dominated
desktop computing in the 1990s. Now (1999) possibly on the verge of
breaking up under pressure from [14771]Linux; see [14772]Lintel.
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Node:wired, Next:[14773]wirehead, Previous:[14774]Wintel, Up:[14775]=
W =
wired n.
See [14776]hardwired.
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Node:wirehead, Next:[14777]wirewater, Previous:[14778]wired,
Up:[14779]= W =
wirehead /wi:r'hed/ n.
[prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1. A
hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications
hardware. 2. An expert in local-area networks. A wirehead can be a
network software wizard too, but will always have the ability to deal
with network hardware, down to the smallest component. Wireheads are
known for their ability to lash up an Ethernet terminator from spare
resistors, for example.
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Node:wirewater, Next:[14780]wish list, Previous:[14781]wirehead,
Up:[14782]= W =
wirewater n.
Syn. [14783]programming fluid. This melds the mainstream slang
adjective `wired' (stimulated, up, hyperactive) with `firewater';
however, it refers to caffeinacious rather than alcoholic beverages.
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Node:wish list, Next:[14784]within delta of,
Previous:[14785]wirewater, Up:[14786]= W =
wish list n.
A list of desired features or bug fixes that probably won't get done
for a long time, usually because the person responsible for the code
is too busy or can't think of a clean way to do it. "OK, I'll add
automatic filename completion to the wish list for the new interface."
Compare [14787]tick-list features.
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Node:within delta of, Next:[14788]within epsilon of,
Previous:[14789]wish list, Up:[14790]= W =
within delta of adj.
See [14791]delta.
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Node:within epsilon of, Next:[14792]wizard, Previous:[14793]within
delta of, Up:[14794]= W =
within epsilon of adj.
See [14795]epsilon.
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Node:wizard, Next:[14796]Wizard Book, Previous:[14797]within epsilon
of, Up:[14798]= W =
wizard n.
1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or
hardware works (that is, who [14799]groks it); esp. someone who can
find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a [14800]hacker
if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect
to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that
thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the
time to study it. 2. The term `wizard' is also used intransitively of
someone who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving
ability. 3. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to
ordinary people; one who has [14801]wheel privileges on a system. 4. A
Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough
established that `Unix Wizard' is a recognized job title at some
corporations and to most headhunters. See [14802]guru, [14803]lord
high fixer. See also [14804]deep magic, [14805]heavy wizardry,
[14806]incantation, [14807]magic, [14808]mutter, [14809]rain dance,
[14810]voodoo programming, [14811]wave a dead chicken.
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Node:Wizard Book, Next:[14812]wizard hat, Previous:[14813]wizard,
Up:[14814]= W =
Wizard Book n.
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Hal Abelson,
Jerry Sussman and Julie Sussman; MIT Press, 1984, 1996; ISBN
0-262-01153-0), an excellent computer science text used in
introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the
jacket. One of the [14815]bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less
commonly, known as the [14816]Purple Book.
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Node:wizard hat, Next:[14817]wizard mode, Previous:[14818]Wizard Book,
Up:[14819]= W =
wizard hat n.
[also, after Terry Pratchett, `pointy hat'] Notional headgear worn by
whoever is the [14820]wizard in a particular context. The implication
is that it's a transferable role. "Talk to Alice, she's wearing the
TCP/IP wizard hat while Bob is on vacation." This metaphor is
sufficiently live that one may actually see hackers miming the act of
putting on, taking off, or transferring a phantom hat. Compare
[14821]patch pumpkin.
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Node:wizard mode, Next:[14822]wizardly, Previous:[14823]wizard hat,
Up:[14824]= W =
wizard mode n.
[from [14825]rogue] A special access mode of a program or system,
usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or
`wheel mode' would be used instead). This term is often used with
respect to games that have editable state.
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Node:wizardly, Next:[14826]wok-on-the-wall, Previous:[14827]wizard
mode, Up:[14828]= W =
wizardly adj.
Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly [14829]feature is one that only a
wizard could understand or use properly.
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Node:wok-on-the-wall, Next:[14830]womb box, Previous:[14831]wizardly,
Up:[14832]= W =
wok-on-the-wall n.
A small microwave dish antenna used for cross-campus private network
circuits, from the obvious resemblance between a microwave dish and
the Chinese culinary utensil.
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Node:womb box, Next:[14833]WOMBAT, Previous:[14834]wok-on-the-wall,
Up:[14835]= W =
womb box n.
1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment. 2. [proposed] A variety of
hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped
carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix; mundanely called a `flight
case'. Used for delicate test equipment, electronics, and musical
instruments.
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Node:WOMBAT, Next:[14836]womble, Previous:[14837]womb box, Up:[14838]=
W =
WOMBAT /wom'bat/ adj.
[acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which
are both profoundly [14839]uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to
benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful
constructions such as `wrestling with a wombat'. See also
[14840]crawling horror, [14841]SMOP. Also note the rather different
usage as a metasyntactic variable in [14842]Commonwealth Hackish.
Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as
their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to "HELP
WOMBAT" with factual information about Real World wombats.
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Node:womble, Next:[14843]wonky, Previous:[14844]WOMBAT, Up:[14845]= W
=
womble n.
[Unisys UK: from British animated characters] A user who has great
difficulty in communicating their requirements and/or in using the
resulting software. Extreme case of [14846]luser. An especially senior
or high-ranking womble is referred to as Great-Uncle Bulgaria.
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Node:wonky, Next:[14847]woofer, Previous:[14848]womble, Up:[14849]= W
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wonky /wong'kee/ adj.
[from Australian slang] Yet another approximate synonym for
[14850]broken. Specifically connotes a malfunction that produces
behavior seen as crazy, humorous, or amusingly perverse. "That was the
day the printer's font logic went wonky and everybody's listings came
out in Tengwar." Also in `wonked out'. See [14851]funky,
[14852]demented, [14853]bozotic.
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Node:woofer, Next:[14854]workaround, Previous:[14855]wonky,
Up:[14856]= W =
woofer n.
[University of Waterloo] Some varieties of wide paper for printers
have a perforation 8.5 inches from the left margin that allows the
excess on the right-hand side to be torn off when the print format is
80 columns or less wide. The right-hand excess may be called `woofer'.
This term (like [14857]tweeter) has been in use at Waterloo since
1972, but is elsewhere unknown. In audio jargon, the word refers to
the bass speaker(s) on a hi-fi.
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Node:workaround, Next:[14858]working as designed,
Previous:[14859]woofer, Up:[14860]= W =
workaround n.
1. A temporary [14861]kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a
[14862]bug or [14863]misfeature in some system. Theoretically,
workarounds are always replaced by [14864]fixes; in practice,
customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long
periods of time. "The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I
fixed it to interpret them as spaces." "That's not a fix, that's a
workaround!" 2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do
what some currently non-working feature should do. Hypothetical
example: "Using META-F7 [14865]crashes the 4.43 build of Weemax, but
as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then SHIFT-F5, and delete the
remaining [14866]cruft by hand."
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Node:working as designed, Next:[14867]worm,
Previous:[14868]workaround, Up:[14869]= W =
working as designed adj.
[IBM] 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specification;
useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a
program's utility. 3. Unfortunately also used as a bogus reason for
not accepting a criticism or suggestion. At [14870]IBM, this sense is
used in official documents! See [14871]BAD.
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Node:worm, Next:[14872]wormhole, Previous:[14873]working as designed,
Up:[14874]= W =
worm n.
[from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via
XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network,
reproducing itself as it goes. Compare [14875]virus. Nowadays the term
has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only [14876]crackers
write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's
[14877]Great Worm of 1988, a `benign' one that got out of control and
hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also
[14878]cracker, [14879]RTM, [14880]Trojan horse, [14881]ice.
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Node:wormhole, Next:[14882]wound around the axle,
Previous:[14883]worm, Up:[14884]= W =
wormhole /werm'hohl/ n.
[from the `wormhole' singularities hypothesized in some versions of
General Relativity theory] 1. [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which
contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making
it easy to substitute a different routine. This term is now
obsolescent; modern operating systems use clusters of wormholes
extensively (for modularization of I/O handling in particular, as in
the Unix device-driver organization) but the preferred techspeak for
these clusters is `device tables', `jump tables' or `capability
tables'. 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial
satellite link to join two or more amateur VHF networks. So called
because traffic routed through a wormhole leaves and re-enters the
amateur network over great distances with usually little clue in the
message routing header as to how it got from one relay to the other.
Compare [14885]gopher hole (sense 2).
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Node:wound around the axle, Next:[14886]wrap around,
Previous:[14887]wormhole, Up:[14888]= W =
wound around the axle adj.
In an infinite loop. Often used by older computer types.
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Node:wrap around, Next:[14889]write-only code, Previous:[14890]wound
around the axle, Up:[14891]= W =
wrap around vi.
(also n. `wraparound' and v. shorthand `wrap') 1. [techspeak] The
action of a counter that starts over at zero or at `minus infinity'
(see [14892]infinity) after its maximum value has been reached, and
continues incrementing, either because it is programmed to do so or
because of an overflow (as when a car's odometer starts over at 0). 2.
To change [14893]phase gradually and continuously by maintaining a
steady wake-sleep cycle somewhat longer than 24 hours, e.g., living
six long (28-hour) days in a week (or, equivalently, sleeping at the
rate of 10 microhertz). This sense is also called
[14894]phase-wrapping.
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Node:write-only code, Next:[14895]write-only language,
Previous:[14896]wrap around, Up:[14897]= W =
write-only code n.
[a play on `read-only memory'] Code so arcane, complex, or
ill-structured that it cannot be modified or even comprehended by
anyone but its author, and possibly not even by him/her. A [14898]Bad
Thing.
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Node:write-only language, Next:[14899]write-only memory,
Previous:[14900]write-only code, Up:[14901]= W =
write-only language n.
A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre
that any routine of significant size is automatically
[14902]write-only code. A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and
often to APL, though [14903]INTERCAL and [14904]TECO certainly deserve
it more. See also [14905]Befunge.
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Node:write-only memory, Next:[14906]Wrong Thing,
Previous:[14907]write-only language, Up:[14908]= W =
write-only memory n.
The obvious antonym to `read-only memory'. Out of frustration with the
long and seemingly useless chain of approvals required of component
specifications, during which no actual checking seemed to occur, an
engineer at Signetics once created a specification for a write-only
memory and included it with a bunch of other specifications to be
approved. This inclusion came to the attention of Signetics
[14909]management only when regular customers started calling and
asking for pricing information. Signetics published a corrected
edition of the data book and requested the return of the `erroneous'
ones. Later, in 1972, Signetics bought a double-page spread in
"Electronics" magazine's April issue and used the spec as an April
Fools' Day joke. Instead of the more conventional characteristic
curves, the 25120 "fully encoded, 9046 x N, Random Access,
write-only-memory" data sheet included diagrams of "bit capacity vs.
Temp.", "Iff vs. Vff", "Number of pins remaining vs. number of socket
insertions", and "AQL vs. selling price". The 25120 required a 6.3 VAC
VFF supply, a +10V VCC, and VDD of 0V, +/- 2%.
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Node:Wrong Thing, Next:[14910]wugga wugga, Previous:[14911]write-only
memory, Up:[14912]= W =
Wrong Thing n.
A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or
inappropriate. Often capitalized; always emphasized in speech as if
capitalized. The opposite of the [14913]Right Thing; more generally,
anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where `the good is the
enemy of the best', the merely good -- although good -- is
nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level
declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the
module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
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Node:wugga wugga, Next:[14914]wumpus, Previous:[14915]Wrong Thing,
Up:[14916]= W =
wugga wugga /wuh'g* wuh'g*/ n.
Imaginary sound that a computer program makes as it labors with a
tedious or difficult task.[14917]grind (sense 4).
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Node:wumpus, Next:[14918]WYSIAYG, Previous:[14919]wugga wugga,
Up:[14920]= W =
wumpus /wuhm'p*s/ n.
The central monster (and, in many versions, the name) of a famous
family of very early computer games called "Hunt The Wumpus'. The
original was invented in 1970 (several years before [14921]ADVENT) by
Gregory Yob. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of
an dodecahedron's edge/vertex graph (later versions supported other
topologies, including an icosahedron and Möbius strip). The player
started somewhere at random in the cave with five `crooked arrows';
these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would
kill the wumpus on a hit (later versions introduced the wounded
wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement
necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus
(which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless
pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at
a random location (later versions added `anaerobic termites' that ate
arrows, bat migrations, and earthquakes that randomly changed pit
locations).
This game appears to have been the first to use a non-random
graph-structured map (as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even
older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon-like
setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured [14922]ADVENT
and [14923]Zork and was directly ancestral to the latter (Zork
acknowledged this heritage by including a super-bat colony). A C
emulation of the original Basic game is available at the
Retrocomputing Museum, [14924]http://www.ccil.org/retro.
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Node:WYSIAYG, Next:[14925]WYSIWYG, Previous:[14926]wumpus, Up:[14927]=
W =
WYSIAYG /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj.
Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is All You Get";
an unhappy variant of [14928]WYSIWYG. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style
interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack
depth; they often frustrate advanced users who would be better served
by a command-style interface. When this happens, the frustrated user
has a WYSIAYG problem. This term is most often used of editors, word
processors, and document formatting programs. WYSIWYG `desktop
publishing' programs, for example, are a clear win for creating small
documents with lots of fonts and graphics in them, especially things
like newsletters and presentation slides. When typesetting book-length
manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the nature of the task;
one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the increased power and
flexibility of a command-driven formatter like [14929]TeX or Unix's
[14930]troff becomes not just desirable but a necessity. Compare
[14931]YAFIYGI.
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Node:WYSIWYG, Next:[14932]X, Previous:[14933]WYSIAYG, Up:[14934]= W =
WYSIWYG /wiz'ee-wig/ adj.
[Traced to Flip Wilson's "Geraldine" character c.1970] Describes a
user interface under which "What You See Is What You Get", as opposed
to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands that do not result in
immediate visual feedback. True WYSIWYG in environments supporting
multiple fonts or graphics is a a rarely-attained ideal; there are
variants of this term to express real-world manifestations including
WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) and WYSIMOLWYG (What
You See Is More or Less What You Get). All these can be mildly
derogatory, as they are often used to refer to dumbed-down
[14935]user-friendly interfaces targeted at non-programmers; a hacker
has no fear of obscure commands (compare [14936]WYSIAYG). On the other
hand, [14937]EMACS was one of the very first WYSIWYG editors,
replacing (actually, at first overlaying) the extremely obscure,
command-based [14938]TECO. See also [14939]WIMP environment. [Oddly
enough, WYSIWYG has already made it into the OED, in lower case yet.
--ESR]
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Node:= X =, Next:[14940]= Y =, Previous:[14941]= W =, Up:[14942]The
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= X =
* [14943]X:
* [14944]XEROX PARC:
* [14945]XOFF:
* [14946]XON:
* [14947]xor:
* [14948]xref:
* [14949]XXX:
* [14950]xyzzy:
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Node:X, Next:[14951]XEROX PARC, Previous:[14952]WYSIWYG, Up:[14953]= X
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X /X/ n.
1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in
roughly its algebraic sense of `unknown within a set defined by
context' (compare [14954]N). Thus, the abbreviation 680x0 stands for
68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for 80186,
80286, 80386, 80486, 80586 or 80686 (note that a Unix hacker might
write these as 680[0-6]0 and 80[1-6]86 or 680?0 and 80?86
respectively; see [14955]glob). 2. [after the name of an earlier
window system called `W'] An over-sized, over-featured,
over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated window system
developed at MIT and widely used on Unix systems.
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Node:XEROX PARC, Next:[14956]XOFF, Previous:[14957]X, Up:[14958]= X =
XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n.
The famed Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the
early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
groundbreaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice,
windows, and icons style of software interface was invented there. So
was the laser printer and the local-area network; and PARC's series of
D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by
a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own
company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as
a place that specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone
else.
The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level
[14959]suits has been well anatomized in "Fumbling The Future: How
XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer" by Douglas
K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN
0-688-09511-9).
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Node:XOFF, Next:[14960]XON, Previous:[14961]XEROX PARC, Up:[14962]= X
=
XOFF /X-of/ n.
Syn. [14963]control-S.
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Node:XON, Next:[14964]xor, Previous:[14965]XOFF, Up:[14966]= X =
XON /X-on/ n.
Syn. [14967]control-Q.
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Node:xor, Next:[14968]xref, Previous:[14969]XON, Up:[14970]= X =
xor /X'or/, /kzor/ conj.
Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'. "I want to get
cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of
the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of
its two arguments is true.
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Node:xref, Next:[14971]XXX, Previous:[14972]xor, Up:[14973]= X =
xref /X'ref/ v.,n.
Hackish standard abbreviation for `cross-reference'.
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Node:XXX, Next:[14974]xyzzy, Previous:[14975]xref, Up:[14976]= X =
XXX /X-X-X/ n.
A marker that attention is needed. Commonly used in program comments
to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be. Some hackers liken
`XXX' to the notional heavy-porn movie rating. Compare [14977]FIXME.
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Node:xyzzy, Next:[14978]YA-, Previous:[14979]XXX, Up:[14980]= X =
xyzzy /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ adj.
[from the ADVENT game] The [14981]canonical `magic word'. This comes
from [14982]ADVENT, in which the idea is to explore an underground
cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there. If
you type `xyzzy' at the appropriate time, you can move instantly
between two otherwise distant points. If, therefore, you encounter
some bit of [14983]magic, you might remark on this quite succinctly by
saying simply "Xyzzy!" "Ordinarily you can't look at someone else's
screen if he has protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear
the system will let you do it anyway." "Xyzzy!" It's traditional for
xyzzy to be an [14984]Easter egg in games with text interfaces.
Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command
on several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would
typically respond "Nothing happens", just as [14985]ADVENT did if the
magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed
the action that enabled the word. In more recent 32-bit versions, by
the way, AOS/VS responds "Twice as much happens".
Early versions of the popular `minesweeper' game under Microsoft
Windows had a cheat mode triggered by the command
`xyzzy
' that turns the top-left pixel of the
screen different colors depending on whether or not the cursor is over
a bomb. This feature temporarily diasappeared in Windows 98, but
reappeared in Windows 2000.
The following passage from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank
Baum, suggesting a possible pre-ADVENT origin, has recently come to
light:
"Ziz-zy, zuz-zy, zik!" said Dorothy, who was now standing on both
feet. This ended the saying of the charm, and they heard a great
chattering and flapping of wings, as the band of Winged Monkeys flew
up to them.
The text can be viewed at
[14986]ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/wizoz10.
txt.
Another possible pre-ADVENT porigin is discussed at
[14987]http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/c_xyzzy.html.
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