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• home box n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns.
  Yeah? Well, my home box runs a full 4.4 BSD, so there!...
• home machine: n. 1. Syn. {home box}. 2. The machine that receives your email.
  These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads email at work....
• home machine n. 1. Syn. home box. 2. The machine that receives your email.
  These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads email at work....
• bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
  Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
• home page n. 1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web.
  The term `home page' is perhaps a bit misleading because home directories and physical homes in RL are private, but home pages are designed to be very public....
• crank: [from automotive slang] vt. Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance.
  This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations....
• VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• o-op: /noh'op/ alt. NOP /nop/ [no operation] n. 1.
  (also v.) A machine instruction that does nothing (sometimes used in assembler-level programming as filler for data or patch areas, or to overwrite code to be removed in binaries)....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....