LMJargon

  1. n. An old LaserJet CX-based engine, named such because someone removed a the sticker from a paper shredder and stuck it on the CX after it had chewed some paper.

  1. archaic n. A massive controller built to drive the Ricoh 4400 40-ppm (pages per minute) printer. It spanned three PC boards, one for the 10 Mb of DRAM, one for the video output section, and one for the bit-sliced processor. Code for the controller was written in a hideous VLIW microcode language. Despite the hardware stack's limiting the function call depth to 4 or 5 levels, LeoS actually programmed the thing to do a polygon fill. The product was never sold to a general market, but a few were used by another company that shared some of the development costs. LaserMaster showed it at trade shows printing 40 different pages per minute from Ventura Publisher. People were amazed, and it helped to build the company's reputation for speed. (DaleM kept a crunched up PrintMaster circuit board that he ran through a tree shredder in a jar.)

  1. bastardization, pejorative n. Profiler.

  1. v. To envoke the terminate function of Puppy Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Esc and kill the current DOS program, a useful function but not guaranteed to be safe.

  1. n. TSR program allegedly written by David P. Babcock for LaserMaster in 1987. Some swear by it, some swear at it. Version 1.00 (c. 1987) is still used by many software engines in 1992. See puppy out.

  1. n. A cube extension formed by removing a wall to interface to the adjoining cube. Sometimes plants are kept there.

  1. n. The growing of mutant plants without any sunlight whatsoever under single-spectrum fluorescent bulbs. See DaveM’s porch for examples.

  1. interr. The short form of Let’s go someplace for lunch now that serves food. Silent form related by pointing at one’s mouth.

  1. n. Possible choices for a software engine around lunchtime, the food choice meaning going to a restaurant, the death choice meaning eating bag lunch or pizza at LM.

  1. n. A squooshy ball sold in toy stores, supposedly to help relieve stress. Todd, can I play with your foofoo ball?