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• hungus: /huhng'g*s/ [perhaps related to slang `humongous'] adj.
  Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable. "TCP is a hungus piece of code....
• Infocom n. A now-legendary games company, active from 1979 to 1989
  hat commercialized the MDL parser technology used for Zork to produce a line of text adventure games that remain favorites among hackers....
• ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game
  first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976....
• hello sailor! interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of hello world
  eems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with the game Zork (which also included "hello, aviator" and "hello, implementor")....
• Frobnitz, pl. Frobnitzem (frob'nitsm) n.: An unspecified physical object, a widget.
  Also refers to electronic black boxes. This rare form is usually abbreviated to FROTZ, or more commonly to FROB....
• etrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more `serious' designs....
• etrocomputing: /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for {hack value}, of more `serious' designs....
• VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
  -- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)...