fear and loathing
n.
[from Hunter S. Thompson] A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous -- Intel 8086s, or COBOL, or EBCDIC, or any IBM machine bigger than a workstation. "Ack! They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI machine. Fear and loathing time!"
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- Blue Glue
- COBOL
- EBCDIC
- eighty-column mind
- IBM
- JCL
- like kicking dead whales down the beach
- mess-dos
- Real World