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• download vt. 1. [techspeak] To transfer data or (esp.
  ) code from a larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
• upload: /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.
  A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a {download} (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry)....
• upload /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.
  A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry)....
• blast: 1. vt.,n. Synonym for {BLT}, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
  Opposite of {snarf}. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• wheel bit: n. A privilege bit that allows the possessor to perform some restricted operation on a timesharing system
  uch as read or write any file on the system regardless of protections, change or look at any address in the running monitor, crash or reload the system, and kill or create jobs and user accounts....
• mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....
• down: 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• une: [from automotive or musical usage] vt. To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp.
  by adjusting numerical parameters designed as {hook}s for tuning, e....