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• ofty n. [IBM] Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
• ed wire: [IBM] n. Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware.
  It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a {softy} with a soldering iron....
• cryppie: /krip'ee/ n. A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements cryptographic software or hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ironmonger: [IBM] n. A hardware specialist (derogatory).
  Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• wirehead: /wi:r'hed/ n. [prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1.
  A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware....
• ilicon: n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare {iron}).
  Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ivitz: /sniv'itz/ n. A hiccup in hardware or software
  a small, transient problem of unknown origin (less serious than a {snark})....
• glue: n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks.
  For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue logic'....
• verbiage: n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to {{documentation}}.
  This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible subject....