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• BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin board system
  hat is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into topic groups....
• path: n. 1. A {bang path} or explicitly routed {{Internet address}}
  a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines....
• path n. 1. A bang path or explicitly routed Internet addre
  a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines....
• BBS: /B-B-S/ [abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] n.
  An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s....
• UUCPNET n. obs. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software).
  Any machine reachable only via a bang path is on UUCPNET....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• inflate vt. To decompress or puff a file. Rare among Internet hackers, used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.
• operating system n. [techspeak] (Often abbreviated `OS') The foundation software of a machine
  hat which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications....
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....