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wap space n. Storage space, especially temporary storage space used during a move or reconfiguration.
I'm just using that corner of the machine room for swap space....
wapped in n. See swap. See also page in.
wapped out n. See swap. See also page out.
wizzle v.
ync /sink/ n., vi. (var. `synch') 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk...
yntactic salt n. The opposite of syntactic sugar, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to...
yntactic sugar n.
ys-frog /sis'frog/ n. [the PLATO system] Playful variant of `sysprog', which is in turn short for `systems programmer'.
ysadmin /sis'ad-min/ n. Common contraction of `system admin'; see admin.
ysape /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer operato
a play on sysop common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see one-banana problem)....

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