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• error 33: [XEROX PARC] n. 1. Predicating one research effort upon the success of another.
  2. Allowing your own research effort to be placed on the critical path of some other project (be it a research effort or not)....
• 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....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• cray: /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
  2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine....
• PDP-10 n. [Programmed Data Processor model 10] 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....
• firefighting: n. 1. What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems.
  An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?...
• oy program: n. 1. One that can be readily comprehended
  hence, a trivial program (compare {noddy}). 2....
• XEROX PARC: /zee'roks park'/ The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
  For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....
• program: n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3....