LMJargon

  1. n. LX microcode downloader. See CONFIG.LM.

  1. n. A melodious series of ascending tones immediately preceding the printing of a TurboRes'ed page on a LaserMaster printer. It was never shipped (except in a beta copy of the OS/2 LX6 driver), but LXLOAD was modified to enable it in the CONFIG.LM file and the DD/PI source code still contains conditional code to support it.

  1. acronym Versatile acronym, originally To Whom it May Concern. Some sample variants used over the years:
  2. To Whoever installed Microsoft C:
  3. To Witches in Mystical Covens:
  4. The Window in Mark’s Cube.
  5. Titilating Work, including Many Clysters.
  6. Tiny Whelk ingesting Moldy Carp.
  7. Tanqueray When I Meet Customers.
  8. Toilet Water intriques My Cat.
  9. Talk Wickham into Making Code.
  10. Try Windows in Macintosh Computers.
  11. The Workers in Mel’s Company.

  1. n. A long-standing bug in the LX6 display driver that could only be demonstrated with the WinToy FISH.EXE shipped with the Windows 2.1 DDK. The bug caused the right part of the fish bowl not to get cleared at the beginning of the program, but only occurred on the one-bit GlassPage 1280 and not the 8-bit GrayScale 1280 so it was never fixed.

  1. n. Mythical language optimized for writing bad, slow applications. See also Visual Cobol.

  1. n. Mythical language optimized for developing bad, slow applications in an integrated Windows environment. See also Turbo Cobol++.

  1. n. A black-on-white color scheme causing extreme brightness.

  1. n. Codename for the WinPrinter project before it was given an official name. The name was invented in a meeting discussing host-based architecture. Early Harold meetings were held in Harold Biebel's old office, which at that time was known as the Harold Biebel Memorial War Room. In trying to think up a name for the controller, the coincidence between HB (Host-Based) and HB (Harold Biebel) suggested the name Harold for the host-based controller.

  1. n. See Harold.

  1. interj. Uttered when your mind is completely blank and you're doing something trivial that you should remember what you're doing, but you can't. The inference being, if you can't remember what you were doing, how could you possibly remember your own name. Related to whoami under Unix. Later popularized by Adm. Ret. James Stockdale, who was Ross Perot's running mate in 1992.