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• ewgroup wars: /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard
  ee bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• alt: /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or {clone} keyboard
  ee {bucky bits}, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• GNU: /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not UNIX!
  ', see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
• WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....
• bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
  1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET)....
• Great Renaming: n. The {flag day} in 1985 on which all of the non-local groups on the {USENET} had their names changed from the net.
  format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme....
• GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!
  ', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...