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• ay vt. 1. To type to a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, you have to say ls -l.
  Tends to imply a newline-terminated command (a `sentence')....
• erminal illness: n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• cokebottle: /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it it isn't on your keyboard.
  MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle' commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the `{altmode}-altmode-cokebottle' commands at MIT....
• y: /T-T-Y/ [UNIX], /tit'ee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones] n....
• luser: /loo'zr/ n. A {user}; esp. one who is also a {loser}.
  ({luser} and {loser} are pronounced identically....
• line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
  On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
• quadruple bucky: n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key.
  2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard....
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....