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• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• Elite Nerds Create Linux Distro From Hell HELL, MICHIGAN -- A group of long-time Linux zealots and newbie haters have thrown together a new Linux distro called Hellix that is so user-hostile
  o anti-newbie, so cryptic, and so old-fashioned that it actually makes MS-DOS look like a real operating system....
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n. [from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release.
  Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984....
• case and paste n. [from `cut and paste'] 1. The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes.
  Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using case statements....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• WAITS /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of TOPS-10 used on a handful of systems at SAIL up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....
• Stallman's Latest Proclamation Richard M. Stallman doesn't want you to say "Windows" anymore.
  He is now advocating that people call this OS by its real name...
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....