QUADRUPLE BUCKY

  

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QUADRUPLE BUCKY

Specialty Definition: QUADRUPLE BUCKY

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Computing

Quadruple bucky n. obs. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on _both_ sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: QUADRUPLE BUCKY

Specialty definitions using "QUADRUPLE BUCKY": cokebottlespace-cadet keyboard. (references)

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Anagrams: QUADRUPLE BUCKY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-k-l-p-q-r-u-u-u-y"

-4 letters: parbuckled.

-5 letters: parbuckle, quadruple, quadruply.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: QUADRUPLE BUCKY


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

51 55 41 44 52 55 50 4C 45      42 55 43 4B 59

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

    

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

01010001 01010101 01000001 01000100 01010010 01010101 01010000 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000010 01010101 01000011 01001011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#65 &#68 &#82 &#85 &#80 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#66 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0041 0044 0052 0055 0050 004C 0045      0042 0055 0043 004B 0059

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

51553538525550463923655374559

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