Related:

• 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 box: n. A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns.
  Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2 BSD, so there!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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!...
• ystem: n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.
  2. The entire computer system, including input/output devices, the supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software....
• oglodyte: [Commodore] n. 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
  The term `Gnoll' (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported....
• letterbomb: 1. n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see {cycle}, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• ark: [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n.
  1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....