dinosaur pen n.
A traditional mainframe computer room
complete with raised flooring, special power, its own
ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire
extinguishers. See boa.
A traditional mainframe computer room
complete with raised flooring, special power, its own
ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire
extinguishers. See boa.
Related:
- dinosaur pen: n. A traditional {mainframe} computer room complete with
raised flooring,
special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning... - dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special
power.
Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast... - dinosaur n.
1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and
special power.
Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in ... - scram switch: [from the nuclear power industry] n. An
emergency-power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}),
esp. one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating... - scram switch n.
[from the nuclear power industry] An
emergency-power-off switch (see Big Red Switch),
esp. one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating... - mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet
containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a
room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs... - boa [IBM] n.
Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the
floor in a dinosaur pen.
Possibly so called because they display a ferocious... - boa: [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor
in a {dinosaur pen}.
Possibly so called because they display a ferocious... - box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box'
where foo is some functional qualifier,
like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX...
From the same category:
- firmy /fer'mee/ n.
Syn.
stiffy (a 3.5-inch floppy disk)... - spawn n.,vi.
1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create
a child process from within a process.
Technically this is a `fork'; the term `spawn' is... - book titles
There is a tradition in hackerdom of
informally tagging important textbooks and standards... - random adj.
1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical
definition);
weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly... - Suzie COBOL /soo'zee koh'bol/
1. [IBM: prob. from Frank
Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n.
A coder straight out of training school who knows...
