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• finger: [WAITS, via BSD UNIX] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
  Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time, terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable)....
• plan file n. [Unix] On systems that support finger, the `.
  plan' file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered....
• oot: [UNIX] n. 1. The {superuser} account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a UNIX system.
  The term {avatar} is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure (home directory of the root user)....
• oot n. [Unix] 1. The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
  The term avatar is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure...
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• ark n. [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1.
  A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• ark: [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n.
  1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....