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• T /T/ 1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes.
  Used in reply to a question (particularly one asked using The -P convention)....
• 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....
• 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....
• user n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end.
  Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user....
• The `-P' convention: --------------------- Turning a word into a question by appending the syllable `P'
  from the LISP convention of appending the letter `P' to denote a predicate (a boolean-valued function)....
• mumble interj. 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out.
  Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• ime T: /ti:m T/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1.
  "We'll meet on campus at time T or at Louie's at time T+1" means, in the context of going out for dinne...
• crufty: /kruhf'tee/ [origin unknown; poss. from `crusty'] adj.
  1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The {canonical} example is "This is standard old crufty {DEC} software"....