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Table of Contents

Welcome to the Jargon File

1. Introduction

2. The Jargon Lexicon
- Glossary
  - 0
  - A
  - B
    - B1FF
    - B5
    - back door
    - backbone cabal
    - backbone site
    - backgammon
    - background
    - backreference
    - backronym
    - backward combatability
    - BAD
    - Bad and Wrong
    - Bad Thing
    - bag on the side
    - bagbiter
    - bagbiting
    - baggy pantsing
    - balloonian variable
    - bamf
    - banana problem
    - bandwidth
    - bang
    - bang on
    - bang path
    - banner
    - banner ad
    - banner site
    - bar
    - bare metal
    - barf
    - barfmail
    - barfulation
    - barfulous
    - barn
    - barney
    - baroque
    - BASIC
    - batbelt
    - batch
    - bathtub curve
    - Batman factor
    - baud
    - baz
    - bazaar
    - bboard
    - BBS
    - BCPL
    - BDFL
    - beam
    - beanie key
    - beep
    - Befunge
    - beige toaster
    - bells and whistles
    - bells whistles and gongs
    - benchmark
    - Berkeley Quality Software
    - Berzerkeley
    - beta
    - BFI
    - BI
    - bible
    - BiCapitalization
    - biff
    - big iron
    - Big Red Switch
    - Big Room
    - big win
    - big-endian
    - bignum
    - bigot
    - bikeshedding
    - binary four
    - bit
    - bit bang
    - bit bashing
    - bit bucket
    - bit decay
    - bit rot
    - bit twiddling
    - bit-paired keyboard
    - bitblt
    - bits
    - bitty box
    - bixie
    - black art
    - black hat
    - black hole
    - black magic
    - Black Screen of Death
    - blammo
    - blargh
    - blast
    - blat
    - bletch
    - bletcherous
    - blinkenlights
    - blit
    - blitter
    - blivet
    - bloatware
    - BLOB
    - block
    - blog
    - Bloggs Family
    - blogosphere
    - blogrolling
    - blow an EPROM
    - blow away
    - blow out
    - blow past
    - blow up
    - BLT
    - blue box
    - Blue Glue
    - blue goo
    - Blue Screen of Death
    - blue wire
    - blurgle
    - BNF
    - boa
    - board
    - boat anchor
    - bob
    - bodge
    - BOF
    - BOFH
    - bogo-sort
    - bogometer
    - BogoMIPS
    - bogon
    - bogon filter
    - bogon flux
    - bogosity
    - bogotify
    - bogue out
    - bogus
    - Bohr bug
    - boink
    - bomb
    - bondage-and-discipline language
    - bonk/oif
    - book titles
    - boot
    - Borg
    - borken
    - bot
    - bottom feeder
    - bottom-post
    - bottom-up implementation
    - bounce
    - bounce message
    - boustrophedon
    - box
    - boxed comments
    - boxen
    - boxology
    - bozotic
    - brain dump
    - brain fart
    - brain-damaged
    - brain-dead
    - braino
    - brainwidth
    - bread crumbs
    - break
    - break-even point
    - breath-of-life packet
    - breedle
    - Breidbart Index
    - brick
    - bricktext
    - bring X to its knees
    - brittle
    - broadcast storm
    - broken
    - broken arrow
    - broken-ring network
    - BrokenWindows
    - broket
    - Brooks’s Law
    - brown-paper-bag bug
    - browser
    - BRS
    - brute force
    - brute force and ignorance
    - BSD
    - BSOD
    - BUAF
    - BUAG
    - bubble sort
    - bucky bits
    - buffer chuck
    - buffer overflow
    - bug
    - bug-compatible
    - bug-for-bug compatible
    - bug-of-the-month club
    - bulletproof
    - bullschildt
    - bump
    - burble
    - buried treasure
    - burn a CD
    - burn-in period
    - burst page
    - busy-wait
    - buzz
    - buzzword-compliant
    - BWQ
    - by hand
    - byte
    - byte sex
    - bytesexual
    - Bzzzt! Wrong.
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  - F
  - G
  - H
  - I
  - J
  - K
  - L
  - M
  - N
  - O
  - P
  - Q
  - R
  - S
  - T
  - U
  - V
  - W
  - X
  - Y
  - Z

3. Appendices

jargon-i18n

2. The Jargon Lexicon
Glossary
B
byte sex
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byte sex

n.

[common] The byte sex of hardware is big-endian or little-endian; see those entries.

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