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• SIG /sig/ n. (also common as a prefix in combining forms) A Special Interest Group, in one of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery
  well-known ones include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics)....
• cycle of reincarnation: [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca.
  1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again....
• warlording: [from the USENET group alt.fan.warlord] v.
  The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly, or derivative {sig block}....
• music:: n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare {{science-fiction fandom}}, {{oriental food}}
  ee also {filk}). Hackish folklore has long claimed that musical and programming abilities are closely related, and there has been at least one large-scale statistical study that supports this....
• Multics:: /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early (late 1960s) timesharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories. Multics was very innovative for its time --- among other things, it introduced the idea of treating all devices uniformly as special files....
• Multics /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to CTSS....
• music n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare science-fiction fandom, oriental food filk).
  Hackish folklore has long claimed that musical and programming abilities are closely related, and there has been at least one large-scale statistical study that supports this....
• oy language: n. A language useful for instructional purposes or as a proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory, but inadequate for general-purpose programming.
  {Bad Thing}s can result when a toy language is promoted as a general purpose solution for programming (see {bondage-and-discipline language})...
• wheel of reincarnation [coined in a paper by T.
  H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm....