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• wizard mode n. [from rogue] A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• cooked mode n. [Unix, by opposition from raw mode] The normal character-input mode
  with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• cooked mode: [UNIX, by opposition with {raw mode}] n.
  The normal character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• oot mode n. Syn. with wizard mode or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• oot mode: n. Syn. with {wizard mode} or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state.
  Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out....
• aw mode n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under bogus operating systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• ourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing)....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....