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• lunatic fringe n. [IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
  Compare heatseeker....
• heatseeker: [IBM] n. A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the {lunatic fringe}).
  A 1993 example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
• heatseeker n. [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe).
  A 1993 example of a heatseeker was someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3....
• ofty: [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ewsfroup: // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for {newsgroup}, originally a typo but now in regular use on USENET's talk.
  bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare {hing}, {grilf}, and {filk}....
• FUD: /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
  FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products....
• copy protection: n. A class of methods for preventing incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it.
  Considered silly. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• JCL: /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely {rude} Job Control Language.
  JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems....
• visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
  (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....