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• crool: /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
  1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n. The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• ark n. [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] 1.
  A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• WARNING! This system is subject to breakdowns during periods of critical need!
  A special circuit in the computer called a "critical detector" senses the user's emotional state in terms of how desperate they are to get their program to run....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• back door n. [common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers.
  The motivation for such holes is not always siniste...
• Alderson loop n. [Intel] A special version of an infinite loop where there is an exit condition available, but inaccessible in the current implementation of the code.
  Typically this is created while debugging user interface code....
• ark: [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n.
  1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• luser: /loo'zr/ n. A {user}; esp. one who is also a {loser}.
  ({luser} and {loser} are pronounced identically....