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• heavy metal n. [Cambridge] Syn. big iron.
• big iron: n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers.
  Used generally of {number-crunching} supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes....
• usty iron: n. Syn. {tired iron}. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of {water MIPS}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers).
  Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}....
• kulker: n. Syn. {prowler}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• etsplit: n. Syn. {netburp}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• leaky heap: [Cambridge] n. An {arena} with a {memory leak}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• BRS: /B-R-S/ n. Syn. {Big Red Switch}. This abbreviation is fairly common on-line.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• glassfet: /glas'fet/ [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] n.
  Syn. {firebottle}, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...