Related:

• en-finger interface: n. The interface between two networks that cannot be directly connected for security reaso
  efers to the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an operator read from one and type into the other....
• 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'....
• 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'....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term `point-and-shoot interface', describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface such as is found on the Macintosh.
  The implication, of course, is that such an interface is only suitable for idiots....
• glue: n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks.
  For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'....
• hell: [orig. {{Multics}} techspeak, widely propagated via UNIX] n.
  1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• vaxherd: n. /vaks'herd/ [from `oxherd'] A VAX operator. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• job security: n. When some piece of code is written in a particularly {obscure} fashio
  and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job security (i....