TELERAT

Meaning of TELERAT in English

< abuse , hardware > /tel'*-rat/ Unflattering hackerism for " Teleray ", a line of extremely losing terminals .

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(1995-01-19)

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TELERAT — Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray', a now-extinct line of extremely losing terminals. Compare AIDX , Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor , ScumOS , …
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TERMINAK — /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computer terminal. A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the "L" …
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BUGLIX — /buhg'liks/ Pejorative term referring to DEC 's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions. Still used to describe …
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NOMINAL SEMIDESTRUCTOR — Soundalike slang for " National Semiconductor ", found among other places in the 4.3BSD networking sources. During the late 1970s …
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HP-SUX — < abuse , operating system > /H-P suhks/ An unflattering hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique bogosities in …
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TERMINAK — [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computer terminal. A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the `L' key …
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BUGLIX — [uncommon] Pejorative term referring to DEC 's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier severely buggy versions. Still used to describe …
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SLOWLARIS — [Usenet; poss. from the variety of sloth called a "slow loris". The variant `Slowlartus' is also common, related to LART …
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NOMINAL SEMIDESTRUCTOR — Soundalike slang for `National Semiconductor', found among other places in the Networking/2 networking sources. During the late 1970s to mid-1980s …
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INTERNET EXPLODER — [very common] Pejorative hackerism for Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser (also "Internet Exploiter"). Compare HP-SUX , AIDX , buglix , …
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HP-SUX — Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard's Unix port, which features some truly unique bogosities in the filesystem internals and elsewhere (these …
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