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• pnambic: /p*-nam'bik/ [Acronym from the scene in the film version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered
  Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....
• pnambic /p*-nam'bik/ [Acronym from the scene in the film version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered
  Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....
• peon n. A person with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system.
  I can't create an account on foovax for you; I'm only a peon there....
• The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box.
  -- Peter da Silva...
• Multics /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to CTSS....
• aive adj. 1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system
  one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate sense)....
• Ill-chosen abstraction is particularly evident in the design of the ADA runtime system.
  The interface to the ADA runtime system is so opaque that it is impossible to model or predict its performance, making it effectively useless for real-time systems....
• Women don't make fools out of men - they only direct the performance.
• daemon book n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
  3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....