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・ dos requester
・ dos/360
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・ dot address
・ dot com
・ dot file
・ dot matrix printer
・ dot notation
・ dot pitch
・ dotted quad
double bucky
・ double data rate random access memory
・ double data rate synchronous random access memory
・ double deckers
・ double density
・ double quote
・ double-click
・ double-duplex
・ double-ended queue
・ doubled sig


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double bucky : FOLDOC
double bucky
Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F."
This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schus


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