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    [CMU, Tektronix] n. Syn. {root}, {superuser}. There are quite a few UNIX machines on which the name of the superuser account is `avatar'... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    infinite loop

    n. One that never terminates (that is, the machine spins or buzzes forever and goes catatonic). There is a standard joke that has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!"