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• download: vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp.
  a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
• upload /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.
  A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry)....
• upload: /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.
  A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a {download} (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry)....
• blast: 1. vt.,n. Synonym for {BLT}, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
  Opposite of {snarf}. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
• 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....
• blast 1. v.,n. Synonym for BLT, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
  Opposite of snarf. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• ourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing)....
• quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Systè
  me International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses....