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• boa: [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a {dinosaur pen}.
  Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• washing machine: n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• washing machine n. 1. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs -- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• green card: n. [after the "IBM System/360 Reference Data" card] A summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green.
  Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of assembly language....
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• plumbing n. [Unix] Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• demoscene /dem'oh-seen/ [also `demo scene'] A culture of multimedia hackers located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe.
  Demoscene folklore recounts that when old-time warez d00dz cracked some piece of advertisement of in the beginning, usually containing colorful display hacks with greetings to other cracking groups....