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• Core Wars: n. A game between `assembler' programs in a simulated machine, where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting it.
  Popularized by A. K. Dewdney's column in "Scientific American" magazine, this was actually devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr....
• demigod: n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• empire n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago.
  A number of multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version implemented for both Unix and VMS...
• Australian Rules Football may best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.
• life n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific American", October 1970)
  he game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand....
• demigod n. A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• guru meditation n. Amiga equivalent of `panic' in Unix (sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event').
  When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX....