The computer contradictionary / Stan Kelly-Bootle.
By: Kelly-Bootle, Stan
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Contributor(s): Kelly-Bootle, Stan. Devil's DP dictionary.
Material type:
BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0262112027; 0262611120 .Subject(s): Electronic data processing -- Dictionaries | Electronic data processing -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etcDDC classification: 004.0207
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary, warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions. New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing lexicon is a response to the Unix pandemic that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a hugely bewildered, lay audience.'
Originaly published: The devil's DP dictionary. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to The Computer Contradictionary
- Introduction to the First Edition
- Guide
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z