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• ube: 1. n. A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV
  eal hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie (see {Appendix B})....
• glass tty: /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
  because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...
• glass tty /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
  because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• mart terminal n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote server's storage, using local devices as displays....
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• erminal illness: n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• winner: 1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person.
  2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under {user})....
• erminal brain death: n. The extreme form of {terminal illness} (sense 1).
  What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from....