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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>demo</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="demigod.html" title="demigod"/><link rel="next" href="demo-mode.html" title="demo mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">demo</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demigod.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="demo-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="demo"/><dt xmlns="" id="demo"><b>demo</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/de<64>moh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [short for ‘demonstration’] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To demonstrate a product
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or prototype. A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than
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any number of <a href="../T/test.html"><i class="glossterm">test</i></a> runs, especially when important
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people are watching. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The act of demoing.
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“<span class="quote">I've gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface; how does it
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work again?</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Esp. as <span class="firstterm">demo version</span>, can refer either to an early,
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barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration
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purposes as long as the operator uses <span class="emphasis"><em>exactly</em></span> the
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right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and
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unimplemented portions, or to a special version of a program (frequently
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with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to
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the user for enticement purposes. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [<a href="demoscene.html"><i class="glossterm">demoscene</i></a>] A sequence of
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<a href="demoeffect.html"><i class="glossterm">demoeffect</i></a>s (usually) combined with self-composed
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music and hand-drawn (“<span class="quote">pixelated</span>”) graphics. These days (1997)
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usually built to attend a <a href="../C/compo.html"><i class="glossterm">compo</i></a>. Often called
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<span class="firstterm">eurodemos</span> outside Europe, as most of
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the <a href="demoscene.html"><i class="glossterm">demoscene</i></a> activity seems to have gathered in
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northern Europe and especially Scandinavia. See also
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<a href="../I/intro.html"><i class="glossterm">intro</i></a>, <a href="dentro.html"><i class="glossterm">dentro</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demigod.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="demo-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">demigod<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>demo mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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