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Pip

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(1) (Picture In Picture) Viewing a small video window in the middle of a full-screen video display. Although widely used for TV, it is also used in videoconferencing to see how you appear to the other members in the conference.

(2) (Partner Interface Process) See RosettaNet.

(3) (Peripheral Interchange Program) A CP/M utility program that was used to copy files.

Pip
how orphan Philip Pirrup says his name. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations]
See : Diction, Faulty
Pip
Philip Pirrip, orphaned as an infant. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations]
See : Orphan
(tool)PIP - Peripheral Interchange Program.

A program on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, TOPS-10, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operation you might want to do). It is said that when the program was written, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL ("Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord"; this played on the Nahuatl word "atlatl" for a spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity that were no doubt quite intentional).

See also BLT, dd, cat.
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It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
It's a pity, but nothing goes right this week, and Pip has had the worst of the experiment.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
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