| talk A program and supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include , , and or of these programs for other . has the program and and its variants and for the ; has ; has . also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user. 's command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen. Users of such systems are said to be in which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of prattle from talk-like systems to systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include: "BYE?" - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types "BYE" to confirm, or else continues the conversation. "JAM"/"MIN" - just a minute "O" - "over" (I have stopped talking). Also "/" as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common). "OO" - "over and out" - end of conversation. "\" - Greek . "R U THERE?" - are you there? "SEC" - wait a second. "/\/\/" - laughter. But on a , this usually means "earthquake fault". See also . (1998-01-25) |
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