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Hobbit
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Hobbit

A microprocessor from AT&T that was used in a variety of portable devices. It is no longer made.

1.Hobbit - A Scheme to C compiler by Tanel Tammet <tammet@cs.chalmers.se>. Hobbit attempts to retain most of the original Scheme program structure, making the output C program readable and modifiable. Hobbit is written in Scheme and is able to self-compile. Hobbit release 1 works together with the scm release scm4b3. Future releases of scm and hobbit will be coordinated.

Latest version: release 2.

ftp://altdorf.ai.mit.edu/archive/scm/hobbit2.tar.Z.
2.hobbit - High order bit. The most significant bit (of a byte). Also known as the meta bit or high bit.


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Baggins's girth--we are told that his hobbit-hole has lots of pantries) and in The Lord of the Rings Sam, the hobbit servant, is described as "a good cook, even by hobbit reckoning, and he had done a good deal of the camp-cooking on their travels" (Towers 261).
An unexpected Guest by Amison, Anne / Mythlore
In The Hobbit, Bilbo's external quest is to help the dwarves regain their treasure, and in the process--by saying yes to the adventure--he also saves himself from a life which up until then has largely been bounded by a concern for his own safety and comfort in his snug little hobbit-hole.
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