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multician /muhl-ti'shn/ n. [coined at Honeywell, ca.
1970] Competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous `Unician'....
Multics /muhl'tiks/ n.
multitask n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see thrash).
The term `multiplex', from communicatio...
mumblage /muhm'bl*j/ n. The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble).
mumble interj. 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out.
Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance ...
munch vt. [often confused with mung, q.v.] To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation.
To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch a...
munching n. Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for thrills, notoriety, or to annoy the system manager.
Compare cracker. See also hacked off....
munching squares n. A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
munchkin /muhnch'kin/ n. [from the squeaky-voiced little people in L.
mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
2. A person who is not in the computer industry....

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