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alpha particles n.

See [467]bit rot.

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alt /awlt/

1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or [471]clone keyboard; see

[472]bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set

the 0200 bit). 2. n. The `option' key on a Macintosh; use of this term

usually reveals that the speaker hacked PCs before coming to the Mac

(see also [473]feature key, which is sometimes incorrectly called

`alt'). 3. n.,obs. [PDP-10; often capitalized to ALT] Alternate name

for the ASCII ESC character (ASCII 0011011), after the keycap labeling

on some older terminals; also `altmode' (/awlt'mohd/). This character

was almost never pronounced `escape' on an ITS system, in [474]TECO,

or under TOPS-10 -- always alt, as in "Type alt alt to end a TECO

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