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• high moby: /hi:' mohb'ee/ n. The high half of a 512K {PDP-10}'s physical address space
  he other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a way that has outlasted the {PDP-10}...
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
• 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....
• On the floor lies a moby ruby.
• 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...
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
• loss n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing.
  Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss', `complete loss'....
• loss: n. Something (not a person) that loses; a situation in which something is losing.
  Emphatic forms include `moby loss', and `total loss', `complete loss'....
• cycle drought n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
  The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory....