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• Moof: /moof/ [MAC users] 1. n. A semi-legendary creature, also called the `dogcow', that lurks in the depths of the Macintosh Technical Notes Hypercard stack V3.
  1; specifically, the full story of the dogcow is told in technical note #31 (the particular Moof illustrated is properly named `Clarus')....
• dogcow /dog'kow/ n. See Moof. The dogcow is a semi-legendary creature that lurks in the depths of the Macintosh Technical Notes Hypercard stack V3.
  1. The full story of the dogcow is told in technical note #31 (the particular dogcow illustrated is properly named `Clarus')....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• 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')....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• 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!...
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
  2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors....