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    n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    big iron

    n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of approval; compare heavy metal, oppose dinosaur.