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• acolyte n. obs. [TMRC] An OSU privileged enough to submit data and programs to a member of the priesthood.
• Multics /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to CTSS....
• grind crank n. // A mythical accessory to a terminal.
  A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster....
• grind crank: n. A mythical accessory to a terminal.
  A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster....
• DDT /D-D-T/ n. [from the insecticide para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
  Generic term for a program that assists in debugging other programs by showing individual machine instructions in a readable symbolic form and letting the user change them....
• OSU /O-S-U/ n. obs. [TMRC] Acronym for Officially Sanctioned Use
  a user who is recognized as such by the computer authorities and allowed to use the computer above the objections of the security monitor....
• PDP-20: n. The most famous computer that never was.
  {PDP-10} computers running the {{TOPS-10}} operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11....
• PDP-20 n. The most famous computer that never was.
  PDP-10 computers running the TOPS-10 operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11....
• 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')....