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• un lounge n. [UK] The room where all the Sun workstations live.
  The humor in this term comes from the fact that it's also in mainstream use to describe a solarium, and all those Sun workstations clustered together give off an amazing amount of heat....
• ScumOS: /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism for SunOS
  he UNIX variant supported on Sun Microsystems's UNIX workstations (see also {sun-stools}), and compare {AIDX}, {Macintrash}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {HP-SUX}....
• quare tape: n. Mainframe magnetic tape cartridges for use with IBM 3480 or compatible tape drive
  or QIC tapes used on workstations and micros. The term comes from the square (actually rectangular) shape of the cartridge...
• ScumOS /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ n. Unflattering hackerism for SunOS
  he BSD Unix variant supported on Sun Microsystems's Unix workstations (see also sun-stools), and compare AIDX, Macintrash, HP-SUX....
• pizza box: [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• cowboy: [Sun, from William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF] n.
  Synonym for {hacker}. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence....
• WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....
• buglix: /buhg'liks/ n. Pejorative term referring to {DEC}'s ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions.
  Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....