meaning of sunspots
1. sunspots 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?" "Sunspots, I guess. " 2. Also the cause of bit rot - from the myth that sunspots will increase cosmic rays, which can flip single bits in memory. See also phase of the moon. [Jargon File] sun-stools Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing environment notorious in its day for size, slowness, and misfeatures. X, however, is larger and slower; see second-system effect. SunView A windowing system from Sun Microsystems, superseded by NeWS. SUNY State University of New York SUPER The successor to LOGLISP, based on LNF. ["New Generation Knowledge Processing: Final Report on the SUPER System", J Alan Robinson et al, CASE Center TR 8707, Syracuse U, 1987].
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