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• dec: /dek/ v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a `dec' mnemonic....
• digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....
• field servoid: [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
  Representative of a field service organization (see {field circus})....
• How many security guards at a Grateful Dead concert -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  21: One to change the bulb, the rest to fatally beat the Deadhead who was only there to look at the light....
• mangler: [DEC] n. A manager. Compare {mango}; see also {management}.
  Note that {system mangler} is somewhat different in connotation. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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"....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• VAXen: /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n.
  (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....