meaning of dec wars

1. DEC Wars A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR disappointed by Hastings and Tarrs failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused. [Jargon File] DECwindows DECs windowing environment based on the X Window System. DECwrite DECs CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents. DED Dark-Emitting Diode that is, a burned-out LED. Compare SED, LER, write-only memory. In the early 1970s both Signetics and Texas instruments released DED spec sheets as AFJs suggested uses included "as a power-off indicator". [Jargon File] dedicated line A telephone line leased expressly for the purpose of connecting two users more-or-less permenantly. . Such lines may be "voice grade" which provides the bandwidth and signal to noise ratio of ordinary public switched telephone network circuits, or specified in ways which allow transport of suitably encoded digital signals at faster rates. In some cases, lines may be physical wires between the communicating parties. Over longer distances, it is common for the connection to be virtual, which means that although the two users can communicate only with each other, their signals and others are multiplexed, amplified, switched, scrambled, demultiplexed and so on in complex ways between the end points. This contrasts with a dial-up connection which is only opened when one end requires it.

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