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n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one
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thing well; a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily
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spinning its exercise wheel. 2. A tailless mouse; that is, one with an
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infrared link to a receiver on the machine, as opposed to the conventional
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cable. 3. [UK] Any item of hardware made by Amstrad, a company famous for
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its cheap plastic PC-almost-compatibles.
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