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JOSS

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JOSS [′jäs]
(computer science)
A time-sharing language, designed for concurrent use by a number of people, each at his own console typewriter, and for programs of moderate size and running time.

JOSS - JOHNNIAC Open Shop System.


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They were all guilty, from young Ardmore, a pink cherub of nineteen outward bound for some clerkship in the Consular Service, to old Captain Bentley, grizzled and sea-worn, and as emotional, to look at, as a Chinese joss.
But don't forget to burn a few punk sticks in the joss house to the great god Mazuma from time to time.
As he sat upright and stiff in his chair, he suddenly rapped his knees, like the carved image of some queer Joss or other coming out of its reverie, and said: 'We must finish this bottle, Mr.
 
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