priesthood n. obs.
[TMRC] The select group of system
managers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch
operated computer system. On these computers, a user never had
direct access to a computer, but had to submit his/her data and
programs to a priest for execution. Results were returned days or
even weeks later. See acolyte.
[TMRC] The select group of system
managers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch
operated computer system. On these computers, a user never had
direct access to a computer, but had to submit his/her data and
programs to a priest for execution. Results were returned days or
even weeks later. See acolyte.
Related:
- acolyte n. obs.
[TMRC] An OSU privileged enough to submit data and... - 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. ... - grind crank n. //
A mythical accessory to a terminal.
A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated... - grind crank: n. A mythical accessory to a terminal.
A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated... - DDT /D-D-T/ n.
[from the insecticide
para-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethene] 1.
Generic term for a program that assists in debugging... - OSU /O-S-U/ n. obs.
[TMRC] Acronym for Officially
Sanctioned User;
a user who is recognized as such by the computer ... - PDP-20: n. The most famous computer that never was.
{PDP-10} computers running the {{TOPS-10}} operating... - PDP-20 n.
The most famous computer that never was.
PDP-10 computers running the TOPS-10 operating system... - moby /moh'bee/
[MIT: seems to have been in use among
model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from...
From the same category:
- mobo /moh'bo/
Written and (rarely) spoken contraction
of ... - pizza box n.
[Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics
in (especially Sun) desktop workstations,
so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled... - Marginal Hacks n.
Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into
which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s
(from the D.
C. Power Lab)... - link farm n.
[Unix] A directory tree that contains many
links to files in a master directory tree of files.
Link farms save space when one is maintaining several... - tourist information n.
Information in an on-line display
that is not immediately useful,
but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's...
