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• 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....
• breath-of-life packet n. [XEROX PARC] An Ethernet packet that contains bootstrap (see boot) code
  periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that has happened to crash....
• breath-of-life packet: [XEROX PARC] n. An Ethernet packet that contains bootstrap (see {boot}) code
  periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that has happened to crash....
• cycle server n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large compute-, disk-, or memory-intensive jobs (more formally called a `compute server').
  Implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
• Nightmare File System n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
• Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
• Unix brain damage n. Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems.
  The hack may qualify as `Unix brain damage' if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not....