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• console n. 1. The operator's station of a mainframe.
  In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys....
• CTY: /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ n. [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system {{console}}.
  The term is a contraction of `Console {tty}', that is, `Console TeleTYpe'....
• erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....
• y: /T-T-Y/ [UNIX], /tit'ee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones] n....
• can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp.
  when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {{console}}"....
• fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• erminal junkie n. [UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends mos directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and console jockey....
• y /T-T-Y/, /tit'ee/ n. The latter pronunciation was primarily ITS, but some Unix people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones....