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  • Christmas tree packet
    n. A packet with every single option set for whatever protocol is in use. See {kamikaze packet}, {Chernobyl packet}. (The term doubtless... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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  • swab
    /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab' (see {dd})] 1. vt. To solve the...FULL DEFINITION

  • beanie key
    [Mac users] n. See {command key}.

  • elevator controller
    n. Another archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the ...FULL DEFINITION

  • snark
    [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n. 1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message...FULL DEFINITION

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  • Devil Book
    n. `The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System', by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S....FULL DEFINITION

  • INTERCAL
    /in't*r-kal/ [said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] n. A computer language designed by Don Woods and James...FULL DEFINITION

  • dumb terminal
    n. A terminal which is one step above a {glass tty}, having a minimally-addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features which are...FULL DEFINITION

  • killer poke
    n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) in a memory-mapped control register; used esp....FULL DEFINITION