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• DRECNET /drek'net/ n. [from Yiddish/German `dreck', meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community.
  So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible....
• EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ n.
  [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs....
• EBCDIC:: /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n.
  An alleged character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s....
• TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n. 1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work
  and the only one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching....
• mudhead n. Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
  Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc....
• mudhead: n. Commonly used to refer to a {MUD} player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
  Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc....
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....
• glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....