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• otary debugger: [Commodore] n. Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions.
  Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colors, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage....
• pizza, ANSI standard: /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
  Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor....
• ANSI standard pizza /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
  Coined allegedly because most pizzas ordered by CMU hackers during some period leading up to mid-1990 were of that flavor....
• programming fluid: n. 1. Coffee. 2. Cola. 3. Any caffeinacious stimulant.
  Many hackers consider these essential for those all-night hacking runs....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• Berkeley Quality Software: adj. (often abbreviated `BQS') Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to solve some unique problem.
  It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect documentation, has been tested on at least two examples, and core dumps when anyone else attempts to use it....
• byte:: /bi:t/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• gweep: /gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To {hack}, usually at night.
  At WPI, from 1977 onwards, one who gweeped coud often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the {PDP-10} or, later, the DEC-20....