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• cycle server: n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large {batch} jobs.
  Implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations....
• dickless workstation n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation'
  a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server....
• dickless workstation: n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation'
  a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server....
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• 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....
• 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....
• cray instability n. 1. A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine (see cray).
  Generally more subtle than bugs that can be detected in smaller problems running on a workstation or mini....
• hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....
• That does not compute.