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Bubble Memory, N.: A Derogatory Term, Usually Referring To A Person's Intelligence.
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Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's
intelligence. See also "vacuum tube".
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Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence.
See also "vacuum tube"....
Vacuum Tube - a derogatory term - see 'bubble memory'.
UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....
crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick).
Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....
Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs....
A vacuum-tube brain in a microchip world.
ysape /sys'ayp/ n. A rather derogatory term for a computer operato
a play on sysop common at sites that use the banana hierarchy of problem complexity (see one-banana problem)....