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• HCF: /H-C-F/ n. Mnemonic for `Halt and Catch Fire'
  any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360....
• HCF: Halt and Catch Fire
• killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control registe
  used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....
• killer poke: n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) into a memory-mapped control registe
  used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• blurgle /bler'gl/ n. [UK] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from c which is already known.
  If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or tripled....
• NSA line eater n. The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the U.
  S. Government's spooks. Most hackers used to think it was mythical but believed in acting as though existed just in case....
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• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...