VISUAL INTERFACE

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VISUAL INTERFACE

Specialty Definition: VISUAL INTERFACE

Domain	Definition
Computing	Visual Interface (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, never /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars. (1995-10-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: VISUAL INTERFACE

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
VICI	English	Visual Interface ConsortIum	Computer - (org.)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Frequency of Internet Keywords: VISUAL INTERFACE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
digital visual interface	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: VISUAL INTERFACE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-i-i-l-n-r-s-t-u-v"
	-3 letters: acriflavines.
	-4 letters: acriflavine, aliteracies, cantilevers, carnalities, interfacial, interfluves, unclarities, unrealistic, unrealities, virulencies, vulcanisate.
	-5 letters: afterlives, alacrities, anticaries, aviatrices, cafeterias, calentures, cantilever, catenaries, centaureas, centauries, centralise, clavierist, feracities, fricatives, incurvates, inflective, inflicters, infuriates, interfaces, interfiles, interfluve, interlaces, intervales, lacerative, lacustrine, laticifers, lentivirus, linecaster, literacies, luciferase, luciferins, naturalise, naviculars, neutralise, reinflates, retinacula, revaluates, revictuals, revitalise.
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Alternative Orthography: VISUAL INTERFACE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 49 53 55 41 4C 49 4E 54 45 52 46 41 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001001 01010011 01010101 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000110 01000001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#83 &#85 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#70 &#65 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 0053 0055 0041 004C 0049 004E 0054 0045 0052 0046 0041 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5643535535462434854395240353739

INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Abbreviations
3. Acronyms
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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