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• empire n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago.
  A number of multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version implemented for both Unix and VMS...
• mess-dos: /mes-dos/ n. Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!
  See {{MS-DOS}}. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, its nasty primitive interface, and its ties to IBMness (see {fear and loathing})....
• EXE: /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file.
  Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension ....
• VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• freeware: n. Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, {USENET}, or other electronic media.
  At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK III....
• interrupt list, the:: [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatible
  maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown &l...
• Weenix: /wee'niks/ [ITS] n. A derogatory term for {{UNIX}}, derived from {UNIX weenie}.
  According to one noted ex-ITSer, it is "the operating system preferred by Unix Weenie...
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• 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}....