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• eplicator n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself
  his could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot....
• wabbit: /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
  ] n. 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...
• wabbit /wab'it/ n. [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
  ] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...
• fork bomb n. [Unix] A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C (main() {for(
  )fork();}) or shell ($0 & $0 &) on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug....
• fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can be written in one line of C (`main() {for(
  )fork();}') or shell (`$0 & $0 &') on any UNIX system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug....
• oaster n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller)....
• virus n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
  via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses....
• letterbomb 1. n. A piece of email containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It used to be possible, for example, to send letterbombs that would 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....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....