True BASIC
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A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
Last updated: 1996-03-24
true colour
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A system where the red, green, and blue components of a colour are stored in display memory, as opposed to storing logical colours and using a colour palette to convert them to red, green, blue components.
The advantage of true colour over a palette is that it does not restrict the range of colours which can be displayed on screen simultaneously. For example, if eight bits are used to store each component of each pixel then a total of 2^24 (about 17 million) different colours can be displayed at once which would require a (very expensive) palette with 3 * 2^24 bytes (about 50 megabytes) of memory. The disadvantage of true colour is that image transformations which would normally be done by changing the palette must be done to every pixel of the image which can be much slower. Compare high colour.Last updated: 1996-03-24
true hacker
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(By analogy with "trufan" from SF fandom) One who exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, especially competence and helpfulness to other hackers. A high compliment. "He spent 6 hours helping me bring up UUCP and netnews on my FOOBAR 4000 last week - manifestly the act of a true-hacker".
Compare demigod, opposite: munchkin. [Jargon File]Last updated: 1996-01-07
TRUENAME
An undocumented DOS command to find the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.
Last updated: 2003-10-21
TrueType
An outline font standard first developed by Apple Computer, and later embraced by Microsoft, as a competitor to Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript which is still more popular.
Last updated: 1995-03-16
Nearby terms:
TRS-80 ♦ Truchet point ♦ True BASIC ♦ true colour ♦ true hacker ♦ TRUENAME
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