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generality and utility of a language.html">language and the operating system under
acceptable as input to the FORTRAN compiler?" In other words, can
Alarming numbers of (language, OS) pairs fail this test,
point out that {Unix} (even using FORTRAN) passes it handily.
have had the good fortune to have worked only under modern systems
been suggested that the `disney' will become a benchmark unit for
{noddy} (that is, trivial.html">trivial) program. Doesn't necessarily have
mickey mouse stuff!"; sometimes trivial programs can be very
a quantifier.html">quantifier prefix. 2. A quantifier prefix, calling for
Neither of these uses is peculiar to hackers.html">hackers, but hackers tend to
standard.html">standard English. It is recorded, for example, that one CS
as a microcentury -- that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also
{microfortnight.html">microfortnight}). 3. Personal or human.html">human-scale -- that is,
human being. This sense is generalized from `microcomputer',
Greek prefix meaning `large'). 4. Local as opposed to global (or
reduce pollution only solves a microproblem; the macroproblem of
moving to within walking distance, or (best of all) telecommuting.
:MicroDroid: /n./ [Usenet] A Microsoft employee, esp. one who
post follow-ups to any messages critical of Microsoft's operating
missionaries.
:microfloppies: /n./ 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25/25.html">25-inch
This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out
standard. See {stiffy}, {minifloppies}.
:microfortnight: /n./ 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time
(A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the
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