1. quadruple bucky
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.
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