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• CPU Wars /C-P-U worz/ n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers).
  This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!...
• eat flaming death: imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars} comic
  upposedly derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!...
• eat flaming death imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic
  upposedly derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!...
• IBM discount: n. A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see {clone})
  inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise....
• DEC: n. Digital Equipment Corporation. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines.
  The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see {TMRC}....
• 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....
• BAD: /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj.
  Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess....
• IBM /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually
  Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Moveme...
• FUD: /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
  FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products....