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Urist: /too'rist/ N. Var. Sp. Of {tourist}, Q.v. Also In Adjectival Form, `turistic'.
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:turist: /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of {tourist}, q.v. Also in
adjectival form, `turistic'. Poss. influenced by {luser} and
`Turing'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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urist /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of tourist, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'.
Poss. influenced by luser and `Turing'....
ourist: [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms)....
ourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing)....
ouristic: adj. Having the quality of a {tourist}. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum'.
Often spelled `turistic' or `turistik', so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum'....
mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
parm: /parm/ n. Further-compressed form of {param}.
This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shop...
padded cell: n. Where you put {luser}s so they can't hurt anything.
A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the `rsh(1)' utility on USG UNIX)....
XON: /X-on/ n. Syn. {control-Q}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
et.police: /net-p*-lees'/ n. (var. `net.cops') Those USENET readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and {flame} any posting which they regard as offensive or in violation of their understanding of {netiquette}.
Generally used sarcastically or pejoratively. Also spelled `net police'....