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• TechRef: /tek'ref/ [MS-DOS] n. The original "IBM PC Technical Reference Manual", including the BIOS listing and complete schematics for the PC.
  The only PC documentation in the issue package that's considered serious by real hackers....
• bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
  Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....
• all-elbows: [MS-DOS] adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on {BBS} system
  unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident....
• Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
  The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....
• MS-DOS...The ultimate PC Viru
• CP/M:: /C-P-M/ n. [Control Program for Microcomputers] An early microcomputer {OS} written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and Z80-based machine
  very popular in the late 1970s but virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM PC in 1981....
• vaxism: /vak'sizm/ n. A piece of code that exhibits {vaxocentrism} in critical areas.
  Compare {PC-ism}, {unixism}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ame-day service: n. Ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to {{MS-DOS}} system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute).
  Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not {well-behaved}....
• broken arrow: [IBM] n. The error code displayed on line 25 of a 3270 terminal (or a PC emulating a 3270) for various kinds of protocol violations and "unexpected" error conditions (including connection to a {down} computer).
  On a PC, simulated with `->/_', with the two center characters overstruck....