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• FUD wars /fuhd worz/ n. [from FUD] Political posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares.
  The Unix International vs. OSF conflict about Unix standards was one outstanding example...
• FUD: /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
  FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products....
• FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
  FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products....
• cryppie: /krip'ee/ n. A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements cryptographic software or hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• holy wars: [from {USENET}, but may predate it] n. {flame war}s over {religious issues}.
  The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms {big-endian} and {little-endian} in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....
• wirehead: /wi:r'hed/ n. [prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1.
  A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware....
• elevator controller: n. An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like {toaster} (which superseded it).
  During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardization committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment....
• ofty: [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eats vs. scruffies: n. The label used to refer to one of the continuing {holy wars} in AI research.
  This conflict tangles together two separate issues....