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• wheel wars n. [Stanford University] A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each ot to log each other out of the system
  delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users....
• EXCH: /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ vt. To exchange two things, each for the othe
  o swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!...
• BBS: /B-B-S/ [abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] n.
  An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s....
• creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing retu
  something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the {Real World}....
• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. HOFFER
• BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin board system
  hat is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into topic groups....
• larval stage: n. Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers.
  Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour {hacking run} in a given week...
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• burn-in period: n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with {marginal} components before they get out the doo
  he theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....