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• console:: n. 1. The operator's station of a {mainframe}.
  In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys....
• erminal junkie: [UK] n. A {wannabee} or early {larval stage} hacker who spends most of his or her time wandering the directory tree and writing {noddy} programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and {console jockey}....
• check: n. A hardware-detected error condition, most commonly used to refer to actual hardware failures rather than software-induced traps.
  E.g., a `parity check' is the result of a hardware-detected parity error....
• erminal junkie n. [UK] A wannabee or early larval stage hacker who spends mos directory tree and writing noddy programs just to get a fix of computer time.
  Variants include `terminal jockey', `console junkie', and console jockey....
• y: /T-T-Y/ [UNIX], /tit'ee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones] n....
• console n. 1. The operator's station of a mainframe.
  In times past, this was a privileged location that conveyed godlike powers to anyone with fingers on its keys....
• drop-ins: [prob. by analogy with {drop-outs}] n. Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort.
  Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input....
• console jockey n. See terminal junkie.
• 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....