Related:

• gobble vt. 1. To consume, usu. used with `up'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer.
  2. To obtain, usu. used with `down'. "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow....
• OS: /O-S/ 1. [{Operating System}] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
  2. n.,obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "{OS and JEDGAR}" (in {Appendix A})....
• blit: /blit/ vt. 1. To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
  particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....
• drop-outs: n. 1. A variety of `power glitch' (see {glitch})
  momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains. 2....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• flush: v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call....
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
  burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....
• pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
  To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....