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Computing | Real Soon Now adv. [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in "BYTE"] 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical. 2. When one's gods, fates, or other time commitments permit one to get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath). Often abbreviated RSN. Compare copious free time. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: REAL SOON NOW |
| Specialty definitions using "REAL SOON NOW": RSN. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-n-o-o-o-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: nonsolar. | |
-4 letters: aerosol, ensnarl, lanners, loaners, nonwars, reloans, renowns, ronnels, roseola, swooner, wonners, woolens, woolers. | |
-5 letters: anoles, answer, arseno, aswoon, enrols, lanner, lanose, learns, loaner, loners, loosen, looser, lorans, lowers, nelson, nerols, nonwar, nooser, owners, reason, reloan, renown, resawn, resown, ronnel, rowans, rowels, rowens, saloon, senora, slower, solano, sooner, walers, wanner, warsle, weason. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 41 4C      53 4F 4F 4E      4E 4F 57 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01001111 01001111 01001110 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E A L   S O O N   N O W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0041 004C      0053 004F 004F 004E      004E 004F 0057 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523935462534949482484957 |
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