fun begin - The main event of 1996. Dictionary programmer.

<b>fun begin</b> - The main event of 1996.
Dictionary programmer.


         Let us begin have fun ...



              Foreword ...


   This material was taken from me
Russian weekly "ComputerWeekMoscow", No.48 (254), 26-31 
December 1996. And even though this newspaper is mostly

is designed for users of several other
platforms such as PC, Mac and others, I
sure that the selected I need
smile and make people who
his life did not see any other
computers but we all loved
Speccy.


   Sincerely, Sergey Panyutich (IRBIS from
ATLANTA Hackers Group).


                     g.Pruzhany, 01/10/1997


                    tel.: (8-01632) 213-90

PS: A personal thank you to my druzhbanu
Nick (LYNX) for the time purchased
newspaper "ComputerWeek-Moscow".
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         Key events in 1996


                  "Many things we do not

                understandable, not because

                Our notion of weak and

                because these things are not

                fall within the scope of our

                concepts.


                            Kozma Prutkov


                  January.


   In an effort to slow down the penetration of
new models of its computers to
Russian market, Compaq severed
dealer relations with the Party. "
Apple representative announced that the losses
company in the last quarter exceeded
all expectations. At the same time sharply
escalated fighting between the candidates for
purchase of Apple, including IBM,
Motorola, HP, Sony and Sun. Well
informed sources say
the latter is already working on a version of Mac OS
for UltraSparc.


                 February.


   IBM, in writing off losses of 3.2 from 3.5 billion
dollars. paid for the Lotus, found that
After this operation, its assets are
675 million dollars. Decided to cancel and
this amount. Novell sold the rights to
WordPerfekt firm SoftKey. Last
entered into a marketing agreement with
by Kellogs, whereby the one to
each of the 20 million packets of its corn
flakes will make a copy WordPerfekt
for Windows 95. In connection with the failure to perform
budget through Congress Clinton took
decision to pay salaries
public servants kiberbaksami
via the Internet.


                   March.


   U.S. government employees announced
general strike, as it turned out that
its kiberbaksy they can only buy
virtual food. Company Nintendo and Sega
purchased a license for Java and anonsirovali
terminals to access the Internet for less
$ 100. IBM has released the second generation of PC
Power Personal in multimedia
configuration (without monitor) cost from
7500 dollars. She is confident that consumers
willing to pay for quality products.
Packard Bell offered his car
a similar configuration, but with a monitor, for
1100 dollars. Microsoft announced the release of
Windows 95 Extention Pak. To work with
Service users have rekomenuetsya
RAM is 512 MB.


                  April.


   Members literally snapped
appeared on the market Nintendo Ultra 64.
As it turned out, the application of electronic
Tables are performed on them significantly
faster than workstations with Pentium
Pro. As a result, the first independent
Test a package of Windows 95 Extention Pak
found that for stable operation with
it requires 900 MB of memory; good
rates are achieved when the RAM capacity of 1
GB. Atari has announced that its software for
Jaguar 64 runs faster on a 100-MHz
machines Z80 firm Zilog; terminals in this
configuration will cost $ 50. Magazine
"Wired" was first published not on paper, but on
flash memory.


                   May.


   Atari has licensed Java and
Netscape Navigator, as well as lowered to 35
dollars. price for terminal access to the Internet
JaguarZ80. State Duma opened
your Web-site. Access is free,
but each output is required to pay
$ 50. According to the "PC Week", in the Apple
carried out urgent work on the transfer of Mac OS
250-MHz version of the Z80 firm Zilog.
Nintendo Company was licensed to
Navigator and offers his game
Ultra 64 console as the network
computer for $ 20. Bill and Melinda
named their daughter Belinda.


                   June.


   An engineer from Amdahi found in
internals of the new IBM mainframe
390/370-9000 engraved "Made in Japan" and
suggested that in fact this Skyline
production of Hitachi. The representative of IBM
angrily refuted this slander, saying that
on the outer side of the case can be easily
see the logo and a sticker with a logo
IBM. The firm refused to PhysTechSoft
plans to transfer PTS-DOS on the PowerPC and
announced that it is working on a version of the OS
Integrated Platform Z80-ARM RISC.
Visa's and MasterCard agreed
final draft of the standard security
Financial Transaction (SET) and handed him over
for certification in FAPSI. Established that
Windows 95 runs as fast on
Pentium Pro with 1 GB of RAM as Windows 3.1
at 386/20 MHz with 1 MB of
memory.


                   July.


   At the second meeting ROCIT announced
that the number of registered users
Internet in Russia has reached 97 million
Representatives of the regional phone
U.S. companies, often referred to more
"Baby Bell's uncle, said in
joint communique that the new
Telecommunications Legislation
they opened the road to recovery single
American Information Space
and they join the company Bells
United. This step is supported by the largest in
U.S. cable operators TCI and
Time Warner, which reported their
entry into new union. According to
Yeltsin's decisive contribution to his victory in the
elections made his discovery of
high-speed fiber-optic backbone
Moscow-Vladivostok. Next President
Russia will be the man who
start-up nation-wide
full service network based on
cable modems.


                  August.


   IBM cut prices on the Notes Server to 50
dollars. and Notes Client-up to $ 1. Exposed
at auction rarities PC Notebook Butterfly
IBM Corporation was sold for 75 thousand dollars.
Computer dealer, make this purchase,
said: "I recently wanted to hold it in
hands. "Robert Frankenberg sold the company
Hewlett-Packard system NetWare.
Inspired by his success in the field of marketing in
Russian equipment for analog networks
Cellular Finnish company Benefon
entered into an agreement with Russian
customers for the delivery of analog PBX kaskadnoshagovyh 
totaling $ 2 billion. As said on arrival and the first batch

apparatus president of this company Hermas
Niemenen, when they begin to create
road infrastructure from scratch, not
must immediately be taken for
eight-building highways,
You can start and unpaved, but well
groomed roads.


                 September.


   Apple has stopped work on the Mac OS to
iAPX platform after it was
established that the system runs on
200-MHz Pentium slower than
the corresponding version on Z80 with the same
clock frequency. Suddenly, there was
deficit Ultra 64 - Terminal Access
Internet company Nintendo. As it turned out,
they are very popular among the French
peasants, who set them straight
on tractors. To criticism about the low
performance on the Pentium Pro 16razryadnyh applications Intel 
said the release of Pentium Pro Plus.



                 October.


   At the urging of Microsoft Corporation
Digital ceases production
Alpha RISC microprocessors and
will shift its plant at P7. Company
Novell bought back NetWare; money
for this have been bailed out by selling
Robert Frankenberg. The exhibition "Netcom
'96 "Representative" owls-Teleport
announced that due to lack of demand
in Russia for high-speed communication lines
his company completely changes the price
policy. Now the channels with a throughput
capacity of over 2 Mbps will cost
from $ 400. per month and below, and feeds
bandwidth of less than 19.2 Kbps - from
10 thousand dollars. per month and above.


                  November.


   IBM pays its customers to install
Notes Server, and the Notes Client
distributes free of charge via the Internet.
Announced the first commercial success in
E-Commerce: Federal
U.S. Postal Service has received considerable
profits from the sale of postage stamps
Internet. One of the largest operators
cellular company in the U.S. US West New
Media was first exhibited at the Moscow
Stock Exchange Russian Depository
Receipts (RDR). The price of the initial
proposals amounted to 20.5 rubles. per
DDR, and closed trading at 29 quotes
rub., ie 42% more than the starting price.
Trades were accompanied by performance
National cowboy ensemble
which, without dismounting, performed
songs in country style.


                 December.


   Loss of 30 to 50 dollars. each
sold PowerPC processor has prompted
Motorola Corporation to move to
production of the latest 500-MHz model Z80
firm Zilog. The company changed its DEC
name to Digital EquipmeNT.
Patriotic State Duma
GKI forced to abandon
attempts to sell to foreign investors
stake in Svyazinvest;
decided to combine it with the JSC "Rostelecom" and
call the new company "Svyazinost. Immediately
after the announcement of the decision quotes
shares of Rostelecom, the RTS reached
record level - 2,28 dollars. per share
fell by only 5%. In an effort to slow down
penetration of new models of its
computers on the Russian market, Compaq
entered into a distribution agreement with
"Party".


   Review prepared by the Joint Group
Expert publications "ComputerWeek-Moscow" and
"Computergram international".
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           Dictionary programmer.

Dummy - bourgeois kettle. We do not

        able.

Plug and Pray - "plug and pray" -

        pohogo quality products.

Appendicitis - appendix (appendix).

Baba Yaga - graphics adapter EGA.

Baton - any button (button).

Baton harvesting - work with the keyboard.

Chop sticks - much to beat on the keys.

Baton tread - to work with the mouse.

Beta-tester - a man, which

        debugged version predreliznogo

        program. Useful in that very

        helps in the work and does not ask

        money!

Fleas - bugs in the program. Example: "Fleas

        tortured to death! "

Nit-picker - debugger to find and

        fix bugs, as well as for

        hacking programs.

Wind of change - change OS on the machine.

Screw jerk - a common condition of all

        mnogozadachek.

Vyn '95 - Windows 95.

Glitches polishing - debug appearance

        program.

Glucose - a program where a lot of

        glitches.

Dyupel oblate - a disc compressed Double

        Space.

Stone - the processor.

Rat - arm type mouse.

Krysodrom - mat rat.

Mom - the motherboard.

Floor - the operating system OS / 2.

Snyuhalis - successful installation of the relationship between

        modems.

Spinnomozgovik - dynamic type game

        walk-shoot (DOOM).

Maker - the person next to nothing

        smyslyaschy in computer

        technologies.

Epoxy - a simple program written

        toksikomanom.

Juzverej - kettle that has a modem.

User - the kettle.


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