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- 586: The average IQ needed to understand a PC.
A
- ARG: Agree to run garbage
B
- BBT: Branch on binary tree
- BBW: Branch both ways
- BEW: Branch either way
- BH: Branch and hang
- Bit: A word used to describe computers, as in “Our son’s computer cost quite a bit.”
- BMR :Branch multiple registers
- BOB: Branch on bug
- BOD: Beat on drum
- BOI: Byte operator immediately
- Boot: What your friends give you because you spend too much time bragging about your computer skills.
- BPDI: Be polite, don’t interrupt
- BPO: Branch on power off
- BST: Backspace and stretch tape
- Bug: What your eyes do after you stare at the tiny green computer screen for more than 15 minutes. Also: what computer magazine companies do to you after they get your name on their mailing list.
C
- CEMU: Close eyes and monkey with user space
- Chips: The fattening, non-nutritional food computer users eat to avoid having to leave their keyboards for meals.
- CLBR: Clobber register
- CLBRI: Clobber register immediately
- CM: Circulate memory
- Copy: What you have to do during school tests because you spend too much time at the computer and not enough time studying.
- CPAR: Crumple paper and rip
- CRB: Crash and burn
- CRR: Convert to Roman Numerals
- CU: Convert to unary
- Cursor: What you turn into when you can’t get your computer to perform, as in “You $#% computer!”
- CZZC: Convert zone to ZIP code
D
- DC: Divide and conquer
- Disk: What goes out in your back after bending over a computer keyboard for seven hours at a clip.
- Disk Crash: A typical computer response to any critical deadline.
- DMPK: Destroy memory protect key
- DNPG: Do not pass go
- DO: Divide and overflow
- Dump: The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after you install your computer.
- DWIMNWIS: Do what I mean, not what I say
E
- EIOC: Execute invalid opcode
- EMPC: Emulate pocket calculator
- EPI: Execute programmer immediately
- EROS: Erase read-only storage
- Error: What you made the first time you walked into a computer showroom to “just look.”
- EXOP: Execute operator
- EXPP: Execute political prisoner
- Expansion: Unit The new room you have to build on to your home to house your computer and all its peripherals.
F
- FSRA: Forms skip and run away
G
- GFD: Go forth and divide
- GFM: Go forth and multiply
H
- HCF: Halt and catch fire
I
- IBP: Insert bug and proceed
- IIB: Ignore inquiry and branch
L
- LCC: Load and clear core
M
- MBF: Multiply and be fruitful
- MLR: Move and lose record
N
- NFS: Nightmare File System
P
- PBC: Print and break chain
- PD: Play dead
- PDSK: Punch disk
- PI: Punch invalid
- POPI: Punch operator immediately
- PS*: Punch obscenity
- PSD: Pause and smoke dope
- PVLC: Punch variable length card
R
- RAT: Random Access Tape
- RD: Reverse directions
- RDS: Read sideways
- RIRG: Read inter-record gap
- RPM: Read programmer’s mind
- RSC: Read and shred card
- RSD: On read error self destruct
- RSTOM: Read from store-only memory
- RWCR: Rewind card reader
S
- SDJ: Send data to Japan
- SHAB: Shift a bit
- SHLBM: Shift a little bit more
- SMR: Skip on meaningless result
- SOT: Sit on a tack
- SQSW: Scramble program status word
- SQPC: Sit quietly and play with your crayons
- SRSD: Seek record and scar disk
- SRZ: Subtract and reset to zero
- SSJ: Select stacker and jam
- STROM: Store in read-only memory
T
- TDB: Transfer and drop bits
U
- UER: Update and erase record
V
- VI: Virtually Incomprehensible
W
- WBT: Water binary tree
- WEMG: Write eighteen-minute gap
- WPM: Write programmer’s mind
X
- XSP: Execute systems programmer
Z
- ZAM: Zero all memory