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• B5:
• back door:
• backbone cabal:
• backbone site:
• backgammon:
• background:
• backreference:
• backronym:
• backspace and overstrike:
• backward combatability:
• BAD:
• Bad and Wrong:
• Bad Thing:
• bag on the side:
• bagbiter:
• bagbiting:
• balloonian variable:
• bamf:
• banana label:
• banana problem:
• banner ad:
• barn:
• batbelt:
• Befunge:
• BI:
• binary four:
• bandwidth:
• bang:
• bang on:
• bang path:
• banner:
• bar:
• bare metal:
• barf:
• barfmail:
• barfulation:
• barfulous:
• barney:
• baroque:
• BASIC:
• batch:
• bathtub curve:
• baud:
• baud barf:
• baz:
• bazaar:
• bboard:
• BBS:
• BCPL:
• beam:
• beanie key:
• beep:
• beige toaster:
• bells and whistles:
• bells whistles and gongs:
• benchmark:
• Berkeley Quality Software:
• berklix:
• Berzerkeley:
• beta:
• BFI:
• bible:
• BiCapitalization:
• B1FF:
• biff:
• Big Gray Wall:
• big iron:
• Big Red Switch:
• Big Room:
• big win:
• big-endian:
• bignum:
• bigot:
• bit:
• bit bang:
• bit bashing:
• bit bucket:
• bit decay:
• bit rot:
• bit twiddling:
• bit-paired keyboard:
• bitblt:
• BITNET:
• bits:
• bitty box:
• bixen:
• bixie:
• black art:
• black hole:
• black magic:
• Black Screen of Death:
• Black Thursday:
• blammo:
• blargh:
• blast:
• blat:
• bletch:
• bletcherous:
• blink:
• blinkenlights:
• blit:
• blitter:
• blivet:
• bloatware:
• BLOB:
• block:
• block transfer computations:
• Bloggs Family:
• blow an EPROM:
• blow away:
• blow out:
• blow past:
• blow up:
• BLT:
• Blue Book:
• blue box:
• Blue Glue:
• blue goo:
• Blue Screen of Death:
• blue wire:
• blurgle:
• BNF:
• boa:
• board:
• boat anchor:
• bob:
• bodysurf code:
• BOF:
• BOFH:
• bogo-sort:
• bogometer:
• bogon:
• bogon filter:
• bogon flux:
• bogosity:
• bogotify:
• bogue out:
• bogus:
• Bohr bug:
• boink:
• bomb:
• bondage-and-discipline language:
• bonk/oif:
• book titles:
• boot:
• Borg:
• borken:
• bot:
• bot spot:
• bottom feeder:
• bottom-up implementation:
• bounce:
• bounce message:
• boustrophedon:
• box:
• boxed comments:
• boxen:
• boxology:
• bozotic:
• BQS:
• brain dump:
• brain fart:
• brain-damaged:
• brain-dead:
• braino:
• branch to Fishkill:
• bread crumbs:
• break:
• break-even point:
• breath-of-life packet:
• breedle:
• Breidbart Index:
• bring X to its knees:
• brittle:
• broadcast storm:
• brochureware:
• broken:
• broken arrow:
• BrokenWindows:
• broket:
• Brooks's Law:
• brown-paper-bag bug:
• browser:
• BRS:
• brute force:
• brute force and ignorance:
• BSD:
• BSOD:
• BUAF:
• BUAG:
• bubble sort:
• bucky bits:
• buffer chuck:
• buffer overflow:
• bug:
• bug-compatible:
• bug-for-bug compatible:
• bug-of-the-month club:
• buglix:
• bulletproof:
• bum:
• bump:
• burble:
• buried treasure:
• burn-in period:
• burst page:
• busy-wait:
• buzz:
• BWQ:
• by hand:
• byte:
• byte sex:
• bytesexual:
• Bzzzt! Wrong.:

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