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• bot n [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from `robot'] 1.
  An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
• warez /weirz/ n. Widely used in cracker subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped.
  Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves. See warez d00dz....
• weeter: [University of Waterloo] n. Syn. {perf}, {chad} (sense 1).
  This term (like {woofer}) has been in use at Waterloo since 1972 but is elsewhere unknown....
• weeter n. [University of Waterloo] Syn. perf, chad (sense 1).
  This term (like woofer) has been in use at Waterloo since 1972 but is elsewhere unknown....
• 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....
• lamer n. [prob. originated in skateboarder slang] 1.
  Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common among warez d00dz, crackers, and phreakers....
• accumulator: n. 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.
  The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in `A' derive from historical use of the term `accumulator' (and not, actually, from `arithmetic')....
• mainframe n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional big iron machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....
• ick n. [IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful.
  Compare handle, screen name....