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• polygon pusher n. A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing lots of multi-colored polygons).
  Also `rectangle slinger'....
• ectangle slinger n. See polygon pusher.
• andbender: [IBM] n. A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of chips.
  Compare {ironmonger}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....
• ironmonger n. [IBM] A hardware specialist (derogatory). Compare sandbender, polygon pusher.
• ironmonger: [IBM] n. A hardware specialist (derogatory).
  Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eal estate n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area.
  Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also nanoacre)....
• andbender n. [IBM] A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of chips.
  Compare ironmonger, polygon pu...
• eal estate: n. May be used for any critical resource measured in units of area.
  Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit (see also {nanoacre})....