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• whalesong n. The peculiar clicking and whooshing sounds made by a PEP modem such as the Telebit Trailblazer as it tries to synchronize with another PEP modem for their special high-speed mode.
  This sound isn't anything like the normal two-tone handshake between conventional V-series modems and is instantly recognizable to anyone who has heard it more than once....
• feep: /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
  a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep})....
• moose call n. See whalesong.
• Omag: "What is that dreadful noise?! It sounds like a Bardakian pronghorn moose!
  -- "Unification II", Stardate 45245.8...
• Good Thing: n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized.
  1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...
• feep /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
  a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep)....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....