:humma: // excl. A filler word used on various `chat' and
`talk' programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was
important to say something. The word apparently originated (at
least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a
now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota
during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on
early UNIX systems.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
`talk' programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was
important to say something. The word apparently originated (at
least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a
now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota
during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on
early UNIX systems.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- humma // excl.
A filler word used on various `chat'
and `talk' programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it
was important to say something
The word apparently originated (at least with this... - CTSS: /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early
(1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing
operating systems
ancestral to {{Multics}}, {{UNIX}}, and {{ITS}}... - Unix /yoo'niks/ n.
[In the authors' words, "A weak pun
on Multics
very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive... - GCOS:: /jee'kohs/ n. A {quick-and-dirty} {clone} of
System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive... - scrool: /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in
Houston ca
1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n. The... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - talker system: n. British hackerism for software that enables
real-time chat or {talk mode}
The AI Hackers... - UNIX:: /yoo'niks/ [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on
Multics"] n
(also `Unix') An interactive time-sharing system ... - can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp
when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in...
