Yellow Pages - English Dictionary

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Yellow Pages - English Dictionary

1. Yellow Pages Network Information Service yellow wire IBM Repair wires used when connectors especially ribbon connectors got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them, or to reconnect cut traces after the field engineer mistakenly cut one. Compare blue wire, purple wire, red wire. [Jargon File] Yerk After Yerkes Observatory An object-oriented language based on a Forth Kernel with some major modifications. It was originally known as Neon, developed and sold as a product by Kriya Systems from 1985 to 1989. Several people at The University of Chicago have maintained Yerk since its demise as a product. Because of possible trademark conflict they named it Yerk, which is not an acronym for anything, but rather stands for Yerkes Observatory, part of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at U of C. Version 3.62. ftp://oddjob.uchicago.edu/pub/Yerk/. E-mail: Bob Lowenstein .
2. a telephone directory or section of a directory usually printed on yellow paper where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising

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