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• drum: adj, n. Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices.
  Under BSD UNIX the disk partition used for swapping is still called `/dev/drum'...
• 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....
• Stone Age n.,adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
  1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical dinosaurs....
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• Stone Age: n., adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
  1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical {dinosaur}s....
• microtape: /mi:'kroh-tayp/ n. Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a {macrotape}.
  A DECtape is a small reel, about 4 inches in diameter, of magnetic tape about an inch wide....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• usty memory n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in washing machines). Compare donuts....
• usty memory: n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in {washing machine}s)....