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• IBM discount n. A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone)
  inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise....
• gripenet: [IBM] n. A wry (and thoroughly unofficial) name for IBM's internal VNET system
  deriving from its common use by IBMers to voice pointed criticism of IBM management that would be taboo in more formal channels....
• open switch: [IBM: prob. from railroading] n. An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• kahuna: /k*-hoo'n*/ [IBM: from the Hawaiian title for a shaman] n.
  Synonym for {wizard}, {guru}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
  Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines....
• visionary: n. 1. One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to `see' things using TV cameras.
  (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer....
• etrock: /net'rok/ [IBM] n. A {flame}; used esp. on VNET, IBM's internal corporate network.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• otwork: /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting {flaky} or is {down}.
  Compare {nyetwork}. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca....
• enior bit: [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary