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VMS /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
voice vt. To phone someone, as opposed to emailing them or connecting in talk mode.
I'm busy now; I'll voice you later....
voice-net n. Hackish way of referring to the telephone system, analogizing it to a digital network.
Usenet sig blocks not uncommonly include the "Voice:" or "Voice-Net:" header; common vari...
voodoo programming n. [from George Bush's "voodoo economics"] 1.
The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature, or algorithm that one does not truly understand....
VR // [MUD] n. On-line abbrev for virtual reality, as opposed to RL.
Vulcan nerve pinch n.
vulture capitalist n.
wabbit /wab'it/ n. [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...
WAITS /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of TOPS-10 used on a handful of systems at SAIL up to 1990.

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