Słownik terminologii komputerowej

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Przykłady: pci, /dev/null, functional unit, embedded system, pseudo-tty, nfs.


1 definition found From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 January 2017) [foldoc]: twonkie /twon'kee/ The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of "chick"); a useless "feature" added to look sexy and placate a marketroid. Compare Saturday-night special. The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menace of a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942 "Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much anthologised. [Jargon File] (1994-10-20)