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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>X</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="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="next" href="XEROX-PARC.html" title="XEROX PARC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">X</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XEROX-PARC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="X"/><dt xmlns="" id="X"><b>X</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase)
in roughly its algebraic sense of &#8216;unknown within a set defined by
context&#8217; (compare <a href="../N/N.html"><i class="glossterm">N</i></a>). Thus, the abbreviation
680x0 stands for 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for
80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, 80586 or 80686 (note that a Unix hacker might
write these as 680[0-6]0 and 80[1-6]86 or 680?0 and 80?86 respectively; see
<a href="../G/glob.html"><i class="glossterm">glob</i></a>).</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [after the name of an earlier window system called
&#8216;W&#8217;] An over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and
incredibly over-complicated window system developed at MIT and widely used
on Unix systems.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../X.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XEROX-PARC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">X </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> XEROX PARC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>XEROX PARC</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="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="X.html" title="X"/><link rel="next" href="XOFF.html" title="XOFF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">XEROX PARC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XOFF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="XEROX-PARC"/><dt xmlns="" id="XEROX-PARC"><b>XEROX PARC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/zee´roks park´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The famed Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from
the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of
groundbreaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice,
windows, and icons style of software interface was invented there. So was
the laser printer and the local-area network; and PARC's series of D
machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a
decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own
company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a
place that specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone
else.</p><p>The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level
<a href="../S/suit.html"><i class="glossterm">suit</i></a>s has been well anatomized in
<i class="citetitle">Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the First
Personal Computer</i> by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander
(William Morrow &amp; Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="X.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XOFF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">X </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> XOFF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>XOFF</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="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="XEROX-PARC.html" title="XEROX PARC"/><link rel="next" href="XON.html" title="XON"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">XOFF</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XEROX-PARC.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XON.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="XOFF"/><dt xmlns="" id="XOFF"><b>XOFF</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X·of/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="../C/control-S.html"><i class="glossterm">control-S</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XEROX-PARC.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="XON.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">XEROX PARC </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> XON</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>XON</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="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="XOFF.html" title="XOFF"/><link rel="next" href="xor.html" title="xor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">XON</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XOFF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="XON"/><dt xmlns="" id="XON"><b>XON</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X·on/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="../C/control-Q.html"><i class="glossterm">control-Q</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XOFF.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xor.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">XOFF </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> xor</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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comments to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be. Some hackers
liken &#8216;XXX&#8217; to the notional heavy-porn movie rating. Compare
<a href="../F/FIXME.html"><i class="glossterm">FIXME</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="xref.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xyzzy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">xref </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> xyzzy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>xor</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="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="XON.html" title="XON"/><link rel="next" href="xref.html" title="xref"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">xor</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XON.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xref.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="xor"/><dt xmlns="" id="xor"><b>xor</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X´or/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kzor/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">conj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Exclusive or. &#8216;A xor B&#8217; means &#8216;A or B, but not
both&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split.</span>&#8221;
This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on
truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is
true.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XON.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xref.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">XON </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> xref</td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>xyzzy</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="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="XXX.html" title="XXX"/><link rel="next" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">xyzzy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XXX.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../Y.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="xyzzy"/><dt xmlns="" id="xyzzy"><b>xyzzy</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X·Y·Z·Z·Y/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X·Y·ziz´ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ziz´ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ik·ziz´ee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the ADVENT game] The <a href="../C/canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a>
&#8216;magic word&#8217;. This comes from <a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a>,
in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to
collect the treasures you find there. If you type <span class="firstterm">xyzzy</span> at the appropriate time, you can move
instantly between two otherwise distant points. If, therefore, you
encounter some bit of <a href="../M/magic.html"><i class="glossterm">magic</i></a>, you might remark on
this quite succinctly by saying simply &#8220;<span class="quote">Xyzzy!</span>&#8221;
&#8220;<span class="quote">Ordinarily you can't look at someone else's screen if he has
protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the system will let you
do it anyway.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Xyzzy!</span>&#8221; It's traditional for xyzzy to
be an <a href="../E/Easter-egg.html"><i class="glossterm">Easter egg</i></a> in games with text
interfaces.</p><p>Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command
on several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would typically
respond &#8220;<span class="quote">Nothing happens</span>&#8221;, just as
<a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a> did if the magic was invoked at the wrong
spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. In
more recent 32-bit versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds &#8220;<span class="quote">Twice as
much happens</span>&#8221;.</p><p>Early versions of the popular &#8216;minesweeper&#8217; game under
Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by the command
&#8216;xyzzy&lt;enter&gt;&lt;right-shift&gt;&#8217; that turns the top-left
pixel of the screen different colors depending on whether or not the cursor
is over a bomb. This feature temporarily disappeared in Windows 98, but
reappeared in Windows 2000.</p><p>The following passage from <i class="citetitle">The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz</i> by L. Frank Baum, suggesting a possible pre-ADVENT origin,
has recently come to light: &#8220;<span class="quote">Ziz-zy, zuz-zy, zik!</span>&#8221; said
Dorothy, who was now standing on both feet. This ended the saying of the
charm, and they heard a great chattering and flapping of wings, as the band
of Winged Monkeys flew up to them.</p><p>The text can be viewed at <a href=" ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/wizoz10.txt" target="_top">
Project Gutenberg</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XXX.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../X.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../Y.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">XXX </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Y</td></tr></table></div></body></html>