LMJargon

1. bastardization n. Windows Standard Mode. So named by Microsoft because of its inability to be extended, primarily because of the need to function on the brain-dead 286 processor. The lack of 386 virtual device support limits the extensibility of standard mode. As of July 1995, Stagnant Mode would be obsolete, except that it was the only mode available in SoftWindows for the Mac.

1. bastardization n. Windows Enhanced Mode. So named by Microsoft because of its great capabilities such as plentiful memory, virtual demand-paged capabilities, and the ability to extend it with 386 virtual devices. Of course, this is relative to horrible Real Mode and Stagnant Mode.

1. bastardization v. Enqueue, as in a file.

1. n. Spontaneous meeting where everyone piles into the Hardware Conference Room and learns good things or bad things. Note that everyone only includes those from R&D.

1. n. The HALON controller, after it was modified from the original HardColor design to not use a hard drive to spool the data. Origin: When HardColor development was falling behind, the comment was made If we'd called it EasyColor, we'd be done by now.

1. n. The controller which drives the Canon Color Laser Copier. Named Halon since it was designed to be a Fiery-killer. See also EasyColor and HardColor.

1. n. The original Halon controller. It used a hard drive to spool the incoming data. Dropped when it proved easier not to have the hard drive. See also EasyColor.

1. n. The largest conference room in R&D, located behind the Hardware kitchen near Hardware Land.

1. n. A chair with sufficient padding for your butt to get you through a one-hour meeting. Especially important in the Hardware conference room.

1. n. Configuration file read by LXLOAD, DD/PI, and other components of the LX software.