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• ironmonger: [IBM] n. A hardware specialist (derogatory).
  Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• andbender: [IBM] n. A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of chips.
  Compare {ironmonger}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• andbender n. [IBM] A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of chips.
  Compare ironmonger, polygon pu...
• ectangle slinger n. See polygon pusher.
• ilicon n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare iron).
  Contrasted with software. See also sandbender....
• ilicon: n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare {iron}).
  Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• polygon pusher n. A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing lots of multi-colored polygons).
  Also `rectangle slinger'....
• polygon pusher: n. A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-colored polygons).
  Also `rectangle slinger'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ed wire n. [IBM] Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron....