peta- /pe't*/ pref
[SI] See quantifiers.
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PETSCII /pet'skee/ n. obs.
[abbreviation of PET ASCII] The variation (many would say
perversion) of the ASCII character
set used by the Commodore Business Machines PET series of
personal computers and the later Commodore C64, C16, C128, and
VIC20 machines. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as
in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the
unshifted alphabet at positions 65-90, put the shifted alphabet
at positions 193-218, and added graphics characters.
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PFY n.
[Usenet; common] Abbreviation for `Pimply-Faced Youth'. A
BOFH in training, esp. one apprenticed
to an elder BOFH aged in evil.