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• ip of the ice-cube n. // [IBM] The visible part of something small and insignificant.
  Used as an ironic comment in situations where `tip of the iceberg' might be appropriate if the subject were at all important....
• Remember to leave 15% for the tip of the iceberg.
• etrock: /net'rok/ [IBM] n. A {flame}; used esp. on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri
  oun form variously `quux' (plural `quuces', anglicized to `quuxes') and `quuxu' (genitive plural is `quuxuum', for four u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the `u' letters in Scrabble)....
• cube: n. 1. [short for `cubicle'] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops.
  I've got the manuals in my cube." 2. A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cube)....
• playpen: [IBM] n. A room where programmers work. Compare {salt mines}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• working as designed: [IBM] adj. 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specificatio
  useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....
• mumblage: /muhm'bl*j/ n. The topic of one's mumbling (see {mumble}).
  All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when `mumble' is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives....
• 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'....