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• OS: /O-S/ 1. [{Operating System}] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
  2. n.,obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "{OS and JEDGAR}" (in {Appendix A})....
• OS /O-S/ 1. [Operating System] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
  2. n. obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "OS and JEDGAR" in Appendix A....
• Weenix /wee'niks/ n. 1. [ITS] A derogatory term for Unix, derived from Unix weenie.
  According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
• interrupt 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• footprint n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
  2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• oot: [UNIX] n. 1. The {superuser} account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a UNIX system.
  The term {avatar} is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure (home directory of the root user)....