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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>chicken head</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="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="Chernobyl-packet.html" title="Chernobyl packet"/><link rel="next" href="chickenboner.html" title="chickenboner"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">chicken head</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Chernobyl-packet.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="chickenboner.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="chicken-head"/><dt xmlns="" id="chicken-head"><b>chicken head</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly
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resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was always
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called <span class="firstterm">chicken lips</span>). Rendered in
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ASCII as ‘C=’. With the arguable exception of the
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<a href="../A/Amiga.html"><i class="glossterm">Amiga</i></a>, Commodore's machines were notoriously crocky
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little <a href="../B/bitty-box.html"><i class="glossterm">bitty box</i></a>es, albeit people have written
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multitasking Unix-like operating systems with TCP/IP networking for them.
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Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel <i class="citetitle">Do
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Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i> (the basis for the movie
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<i class="citetitle">Blade Runner</i>; the novel is now sold under that
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title), in which a ‘chickenhead’ is a mutant with below-average
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