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• console:: n. 1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}.
  In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys....
• CTY: /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ n. [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system {{console}}.
  The term is a contraction of `Console {tty}', that is, `Console TeleTYpe'....
• Real Programmers do it on the console panel.
• can vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system.
  Used esp. when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the console"....
• can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp.
  when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {{console}}"....
• fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• y: /T-T-Y/ [UNIX], /tit'ee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones] n....
• Yeah, but they are good at making toys. I mean look at Windows.
  .. -- From a Slashdot.org post about Microsoft's X-Box console...