(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 11:13:32
Knights of the Lambda Calculus = K = Knuth

knobs pl.n.

Configurable options, even in software and even those you can't adjust in real time. Anything you can twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG viewer got an alpha knob?" Software may be described as having "knobs and switches" or occasionally "knobs and lights".

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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