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• crool /skrool/ n. [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
  1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• ark: [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n.
  1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• luser: /loo'zr/ n. A {user}; esp. one who is also a {loser}.
  ({luser} and {loser} are pronounced identically....
• Conway's Law: prov. The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congrue
  originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler"....
• humma: // excl. A filler word used on various `chat' and `talk' programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say something.
  The word apparently originated (at least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early UNIX systems....
• GCOS:: /jee'kohs/ n. A {quick-and-dirty} {clone} of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
  originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System)....
• alker system: n. British hackerism for software that enables real-time chat or {talk mode}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• wedgie: [Fairchild] n. A bug. Prob. related to {wedged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary