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• bang on vt. To stress-test a piece of hardware or software
  "I banged on the new version of the simulator all day yesterday and it didn't crash once....
• pound on: vt. Syn. {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• ofty: [IBM] n. Hardware hackers' term for a software expert who is largely ignorant of the mysteries of hardware.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
• infant mortality: n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large
  his term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile)....
• hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• moke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
  The new version smoked, just like the last one....
• die: v. Syn. {crash}. Unlike {crash}, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.
  See also {go flatline}, {casters-up mode}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• oach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
  Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...