WhatIs

/aws/ or /ay-os/

1. /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) [based on a PDP-10 increment instruction] vt.,obs. To increase the amount of something.

"AOS the campfire."

Usage: considered silly, and now obsolete. Now largely supplanted by bump.

See SOS.

/aŋ-grē früt sa-ləd/

n. A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors.

This derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit salad.

Too often one sees similar affects from interface designers using color window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.

/aŋ-gəl bra-kəts/

n. Either of the characters '<' (ASCII 0111100) and '>' (ASCII 0111110) (ASCII less-than or greater-than signs). The Real World angle brackets used by typographers are actually taller than a less-than or greater-than sign.

See broket, ASCII.

/ampə(r)/

n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand ('&', ASCII 0100110) character.

See ASCII for other synonyms.

/amp ȯf/

[Purdue] vt. To run in background.

From the UNIX shell '&' operator.

/æmp/

AMP, short for Accelerated Mobile Pages, is an open-source initiative aimed at enhancing the speed and performance of web pages on mobile devices. It provides a framework that optimizes web content, allowing pages to load almost instantaneously and providing users with a smoother and more responsive browsing experience. AMP achieves this by streamlining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, reducing unnecessary elements, and leveraging efficient caching techniques.

/ə-ˈmē-bə/

n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.

/ə-ˈlü-mə-nəm ˈbu̇k/

[ MIT ] n. 'Common LISP: The Language', by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990).

Note that due to a technical screwup some printings of the second edition are actually of a color the author describes succinctly as "yucky green".

See also book titles.

/awlt bit/

[from alternate] adj.

See meta bit.

/awlt/

1. n. The ALT shift key on an IBM PC or clone.

2. [possibly lowercased] n. The 'clover' or 'Command' key on a Macintosh; use of this term usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac (see also command key). Some Mac hackers, confusingly, reserve 'ALT' for the Option key.

3. n.obs. [PDP-10] Alternate name for the ASCII ESC character (ASCII 0011011), after the keycap labeling on some older terminals. Also 'ALTMODE' (/awlt'mohd/).