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• When he first came to work at the development center, Ninjei was assigned to support the operating system.
  One day a manager came into Ninjei's cubicle. "Why are you not working?...
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• 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....
• crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• It is not enough to have crashed the system. You must also have Talent!
• HSC: Halt on System Crash
• HWP: Halt Without Provocatio
• Kitchen Sink' OS Announced Coding has begun on a new operating system code named 'Kitchen Sink'.
  The new OS will be based entirely on GNU Emacs. One programmer explained, "Since many hackers spend a vast amount of their time in Emacs, why not just make it the operating system?...
• down 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were expecting to use it)
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....