Pod

Not to be confused with P.O.D..

1. <printer> (Allegedly from abbreviation POD for "Prince Of Darkness") A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality {impact printer}).

From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted text to it.

2. <text> Plain Old Documentation.

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