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• footprint n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
  2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
• oeprint: n. A {footprint} of especially small size. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• green lightning: [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded.
  This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that `something is happening'....
• dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
  Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
• winner: 1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person.
  2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under {user})....
• monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• ape: vt. 1. To {screw} someone or something, violently
  in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably....
• Stone Age: n., adj. 1. In computer folklore, an ill-defined period from ENIAC (ca.
  1943) to the mid-1950s; the great age of electromechanical {dinosaur}s....
• working as designed: [IBM] adj. 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specificatio
  useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....