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• MVS AIRLINES The passengers all gather in the hanger, watching hundreds of technicians check the flight systems on this immense, luxury aircraft.
  This plane has at least 10 engines and seats over 1,000 passengers....
• UNIX EXPRESS Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport.
  They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together....
• MAC AIRWAYS The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, feel the same and act the same.
  When asked questions about the flight they reply that you don't want to know, don't need to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie....
• WINGS of OS/400 The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew and painted 747 on their tails to make them look as if they are fast.
  The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $...
• FLY WINDOWS NT All the passengers carry their seats out onto the tarmac, placing the chairs in the outline of a plane.
  They all sit down, flap their arms and make jet swooshing sounds as if they are flying....
• WINDOWS '95 AIRLINES The terminal is very neat and clean, the attendants are all very attractive and the pilots very capable.
  The fleet is immense. After your plane arrives 6 months late, you begin to wonder why it has not arrived yet....
• DOS AIR All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it until it gets in the air, hop on, jump off when it hits the ground again.
  Then they grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, etcetera....
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
  Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...