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• lobotomy n. 1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is said to have undergone.
  At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by both hackers and low-level manageme...
• 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')....
• Suzie COBOL: /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM: prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
  A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English....
• 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....
• WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
  omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....
• andomness n. 1. An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance.
  2. A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction)....
• MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n. [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Produc
  who called the original QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and is said to have regretted it ever since....
• exec: /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX: from `execute'] Synonym for {chain}, derives from the `exec(2)' call.
  2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an {OS} (see {shell})...
• frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnio
  by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing...