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command" or "alt-U onto the system" (for "log onto the [ITS] system").

This usage probably arose because alt is more convenient to say than

`escape', especially when followed by another alt or a character (or

another alt and a character, for that matter). 4. The alt hierarchy on

Usenet, the tree of newsgroups created by users without a formal vote

and approval procedure. There is a myth, not entirely implausible,

that alt is acronymic for "anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists"; but

in fact it is simply short for "alternative".

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Node:alt bit, Next:[475]Aluminum Book, Previous:[476]alt, Up:[477]= A

alt bit /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj.

See [478]meta bit.

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Up:[481]= A =

Aluminum Book n.

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