Bozo bit, the Glossary
The term bozo bit has been used in two contexts.[1]
Table of Contents
10 relations: Acorn MOS, Advanced Disc Filing System, Apple Inc., Bozo the Clown, Classic Mac OS, Compact disc, Copy protection, Evil bit, Finder (software), Jim McCarthy (author).
- Classic Mac OS
- Copy protection
- Technology neologisms
Acorn MOS
The Machine Operating System (MOS) or OS is a discontinued computer operating system (OS) used in Acorn Computers' BBC computer range.
Advanced Disc Filing System
The Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is a computing file system unique to the Acorn computer range and RISC OS-based successors.
See Bozo bit and Advanced Disc Filing System
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century.
See Bozo bit and Bozo the Clown
Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. Bozo bit and Classic Mac OS are Apple Inc. software.
See Bozo bit and Classic Mac OS
Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
Copy protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any measure to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media.
See Bozo bit and Copy protection
Evil bit
The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003, authored by Steve Bellovin.
Finder (software)
The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems.
See Bozo bit and Finder (software)
Jim McCarthy is an author and keynote speaker on software engineering practices.
See Bozo bit and Jim McCarthy (author)
See also
Classic Mac OS
- AppleShare
- At Ease
- Bozo bit
- Chooser (Mac OS)
- Classic Mac OS
- Classic Mac OS memory management
- Disk First Aid
- Dogcow
- Executor (software)
- Extension (Mac OS)
- Extension conflict
- Inside Macintosh
- Internet Config
- Mac 68k emulator
- Mac OS 8
- Mac OS 9
- Mac OS Runtime for Java
- Mac OS nanokernel
- Macintosh Guide
- Macintosh Toolbox
- Multiprocessing Services
- Network Browser
- Open Transport
- PC Exchange
- Speech Manager
- Standard Apple Numerics Environment
- Star Trek project
- System 1
- System 6
- System 7
- System folder
- System suitcase
- WorldScript
Copy protection
- Bad sector
- Bit nibbler
- Bozo bit
- Broadcast encryption
- Code wheel
- Compact Disc and DVD copy protection
- Copy protection
- Copying
- Digital watermarking
- Fast loader
- FlexNet Publisher
- High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
- Lenslok
- List of Compact Disc and DVD copy protection schemes
- List of copy protection schemes
- Pirate Pay
- Prolok
- Software protection dongle
- Spiradisc
- Trace vector decoder
- Traitor tracing
Technology neologisms
- 1% rule
- Applet
- Bozo bit
- Chimping
- Clickbait
- Cloud manufacturing
- Cockroach (startup)
- Code refactoring
- Dark pattern
- Digital native
- Domain tasting
- Galápagos syndrome
- Giclée
- Heterostasis (cybernetics)
- Lifelog
- List of archaic technological nomenclature
- Marchitecture
- Nanosocialism
- Object hyperlinking
- Peercasting
- Phantom vibration syndrome
- Plug-in (computing)
- Rage-baiting
- Singularitarianism
- Smart cow problem
- Social machine
- Spinner (computing)
- Technocriticism
- Technoetics
- Technorealism
- Throbber
- Time shifting
- TimeTrax
- Tivoization
- Unbundling
- Vexel
- Virtuality (software design)
- Web 2.0
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance