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• eam-powered adj. Old-fashioned or underpowered
  archaic. This term does not have a strong negative loading and may even be used semi-affectionately for something that clanks and wheezes a lot but hangs in there doing the job....
• elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form.
  An elephantine program may be functional and even friendly, but (as in the old joke about being in bed with an elephant) it's tough to have around all the same (and, like a pachyderm, difficult to maintain)....
• one knives and bearskins: [from the Star Trek Classic episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"] n.
  A term traditionally used to describe (and deprecate) computing environments that are grotesquely primitive in light of what is known about good ways to design things....
• can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp.
  when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {{console}}"....
• bletcherous: /blech'*-r*s/ adj. Disgusting in design or functio
  esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people....
• IBM: /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually
  Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning...
• infinite: adj. Consisting of a large number of objec
  extreme. Used very loosely as in: "This program produces infinite garbage....
• hack together: vt. To throw something together so it will work.
  Unlike `kluge together' or {cruft together}, this does not necessarily have negative connotations....
• NIL: /nil/ No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the `-P' convention.
  Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for `false' (see also {T}), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP....