win big vi.
To experience serendipity. "I went shopping and won big; there
was a 2-for-1 sale." See big
win.
Node:win win, Next:Winchester, Previous:win big, Up:=
W =
win win excl.
Expresses pleasure at a win.
Node:Winchester, Next:windoid, Previous:win win, Up:=
W =
Winchester n.
Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk
drives in which the read-write head planes over the disk surface
on an air cushion. There is a legend that the name arose because
the original 1973 engineering prototype for what later became the
IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte volumes; 30-30 became
`Winchester' when somebody noticed the similarity to the common
term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter, the first 30
referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the
charge). (It is sometimes incorrectly claimed that Winchester was
the laboratory in which the technology was developed.)