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    adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so {wedged} or {hung} that it makes no response. If you are... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    DEC Wars

    n. A 1983 USENET posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "UNIX WARS"; the two are often confused.