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// [MUD community] n. Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing. Oppose {VR}.
View Definition: big iron
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
.