quadruple bucky

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quadruple bucky - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  quadruple bucky
  
     Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four
     of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while
     typing a character key.
  
     2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four
     shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four
     shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of
     the keyboard.  This was very difficult to do!  One accepted
     technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys
     with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys
     with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose.
  
     Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in
     practice, because when one invented a new command one usually
     assigned it to some character that was easier to type.  If you
     want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or
     features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that
     makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth
     Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle."  See double bucky,
     bucky bits, cokebottle.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

quadruple bucky - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  quadruple bucky
   n. obs.
  
     1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting
     keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key.
  
     2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift
  keys
     while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the
     control and meta keys on both sides of the keyboard. This was very
     difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control
     and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and
     right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your
     nose.
  
     Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice,
     because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to
     some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a
     program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say
     something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while
     whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle."
     See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.