Related:

• comm mode /kom mohd/ n. [ITS: from the feature supporting on-line cha
  he term may spelled with one or two m's] Syn. for talk mode....
• ENQ: /enkw/ or /enk/ [from the ASCII mnemonic ENQuire for 0000101] An on-line convention for querying someone's availability.
  After opening a {talk mode} connection to someone apparently in heavy hack mode, one might type `SYN SYN ENQ?...
• alker system: n. British hackerism for software that enables real-time chat or {talk mode}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• ourist: [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms)....
• wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• oot mode: n. Syn. with {wizard mode} or `wheel mode'.
  Like these, it is often generalized to describe privileged states in systems other than OSes....
• cooked mode: [UNIX, by opposition with {raw mode}] n.
  The normal character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• are mode: [UNIX] adj. CBREAK mode (character-by-character with interrupts enabled).
  Distinguished from {raw mode} and {cooked mode}...