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• Hackers: Steven Levy Anchor/Doubleday 1984 ISBN 0-385-19195-2 Levy's book is at its best in describing the early MIT hackers at the Model Railroad Club and the early days of the microcomputer revolution.
  He never understood UNIX or the networks, though, and his enshrinement of Richard Stallman as "the last true hacker" turns out (thankfully) to have been quite misleading....
• TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture.
  The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp....
• SPACEWAR: n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E.
  E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace....
• YKYBHTLW: // Abbreviation of `You know you've been hacking too long when.
  ..', which became established on the USENET group alt....
• ivial: adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
  Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly {cretinous} would have thought of them already....
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
  It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• 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 on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....