On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Tom Massey generated:
>keys etc, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's something like
><Alt-F3-Ctrl-F2-Shift-F7-Esc-Sneeze> :-) Come to think of it, I haven't
$ dict -d jargon 'quadruple bucky'
>From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
quadruple bucky n. obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard},
use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and
super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT
keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth
character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys
on _both_ sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do!
One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta
keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with
your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose.
Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice,
because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to
some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a
program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say
something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while
whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle."
See {double bucky}, {bucky bits}, {cokebottle}.
Aah, bless the pioneers of Computer Science ;)
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