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Subject:Re: Hard Hitting Computing From:Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 6 Nov 1996 11:39:19 -0800
At 02:57 PM 11/5/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Maybe we could come up with a glossary of two-fisted computing terms. No,
>"paste" doesn't count, even though it's in Webster.
I would suggest several entries. (In no way do these suggest my own sensitivities. But I rarely write something that only I will read.)
terminate
abort
invalid
parent/child
orphan/widow
master/slave
kill
hit
etc.
On a lighter note: when I am instructed by a manual to "Depress the Enter key," I've taken to looking at it and saying, "You're so ugly you could back up a train."
Regards...Kris
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