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/as'kee/ n. The predominant character set encoding of present-day
computers. Uses 7 bits for each character, whereas... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION
Miscellaneous Hacker Terms
womb box n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment. 2. [proposed]
A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding
and/or shaped carrier cutouts...FULL DEFINITION ABEND [ABnormal END] /ah'bend/, /*-bend'/ n. Abnormal
termination (of software); {crash}; {lossage}. Derives from an
error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by...FULL DEFINITION MOTOS /moh-tohs/ [acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via
USENET Member Of The Opposite Sex] n. A potential or (less often)
actual sex partner....FULL DEFINITION zorkmid /zork'mid/ n. The canonical unit of currency in
hacker-written games. This originated in {zork} but has spread
to {nethack} and is referred to...FULL DEFINITION segfault n.,vi. Syn. {segment}, {seggie}. G [SI] pref.,suff. See {{quantifiers}}. home box n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she
owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so
...FULL DEFINITION tick n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the
discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the
simulation mechanism. ...FULL DEFINITION
