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.

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