A handle sense 1. This term has
been common among users of IRC, MUDs, and commercial on-line
services since the mid-1990s. Hackers recognize the term but
don't generally use it.
accumulator n. obs.
1. Archaic term for a register. On-line
use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable
indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or
that the architecture under discussion is quite old....