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hammer vt.

Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang

on.

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hamster n.

1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that

does one thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is

of a hamster happily spinning its

exercise wheel. 2. A tailless mouse; that is, one with an

infrared link to a receiver on the machine, as opposed to the

conventional cable. 3. [UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad,

a company famous for its cheap plastic PC-almost-compatibles.

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