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• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
  -- Helen Kelle...
• yoyo mode n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down.
  Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits....
• yoyo mode: n. The state in which the system is said to be when it rapidly alternates several times between being up and being down.
  Interestingly (and perhaps not by coincidence), many hardware vendors give out free yoyos at Usenix exhibits....
• A computer may not be able to foul things up as well as a human being, but it does it much faster and with a great deal more efficiency.
• PDP-20: n. The most famous computer that never was.
  {PDP-10} computers running the {{TOPS-10}} operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11....
• PDP-20 n. The most famous computer that never was.
  PDP-10 computers running the TOPS-10 operating system were labeled `DECsystem-10' as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11....
• Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.