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- From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sources,misc.misc
- Subject: The Jargon File version has been released
- Message-ID: <1ZdTqf#41ztcP7xOK5d7092TF19CcYG=eric@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 2 Mar 91 18:13:29 GMT
-
-
- The Jargon File has been released for review. You can
- snarf it via FTP from:
-
- mc.lcs.mit.edu 18.26.0.179 under /pub/jargon
-
- Look for a file called `jargon.<nnn>', where <nnn> is the digits
- of the current version number (that is, version 5.6.7 would be `jargon.567').
-
- If you are reading this on USENET or are not on my list of people
- with FTP access, this note will be followed by 17 shar files
- which are all the parts of the Jargon File.
-
- This version is a draft for "The New Hacker's Dictionary", now
- expected to come out from MIT Press sometime in summer 1991. This
- draft is being circulated to the hacker community for criticism and
- additions. Your comments and new entries are welcomed; mail them to
- jargon@snark.thyrsus.com or ...!uunet!snark!jargon.
-
- Here are the new entries:
- -ware 2.7.1
- abend 2.7.1
- asbestos 2.7.1
- backgammon 2.7.1
- beige toaster 2.7.1
- Berkeley Quality Software 2.7.1
- big win 2.7.1
- board 2.7.1
- book titles 2.7.1
- BQS 2.7.1
- CI$ 2.7.1
- chug 2.7.1
- cookie file 2.6.3
- command key 2.7.1
- cough and die 2.7.1
- critical mass 2.7.1
- cycle of reincarnation 2.7.1
- Dissociated Press 2.7.1
- flame on 2.6.2
- firewall code 2.7.1
- flarp 2.7.1
- for free 2.7.1
- four-color glossies 2.7.1
- gaseous 2.6.3
- GIPS 2.7.1
- golf-ball printer 2.7.1
- hacked up 2.7.1
- Hacking X for Y 2.7.1
- kamikaze packet 2.7.1
- laundromat 2.7.1
- lost in the noise 2.7.1
- low-bandwidth 2.7.1
- macro 2.7.1
- maggotbox 2.6.3
- MFTL 2.7.1
- mouse belt 2.7.1
- mouse droppings 2.7.1
- microfortnight 2.7.1
- mod 2.7.1
- nailing jelly 2.7.1
- nanofortnight 2.6.3
- network meltdown 2.7.1
- nuke 2.7.1
- out-of-band 2.6.3
- overrun 2.7.1
- Parkinson's Law of Data 2.7.1
- parm 2.7.1
- platinum-iridium 2.7.1
- precedence lossage 2.7.1
- provocative maintenance 2.7.1
- raw mode 2.7.1
- secondary damage 2.7.1
- talker system 2.7.1
- trampoline 2.7.1
- VAXectomy 2.7.1
- wango 2.7.1
-
- Deleted entries:
- asymptotic 2.7.1
- bat file 2.7.1
- firmware 2.7.1
- fuzz 2.6.3
- grungy 2.7.1
- sluggy 2.7.1
- wow 2.7.1
-
- The changed old entries: (last changed)
- ALT 2.7.1
- ASCII 2.6.3
- bare metal 2.7.1
- bboard 2.7.1
- bit rot 2.7.1
- blow an EPROM 2.7.1
- bogo-sort 2.7.1
- boot 2.7.1
- bug 2.7.1
- Brooks's Law 2.7.1
- buffer overflow 2.7.1
- computer confetti 2.7.1
- connector conspiracy 2.7.1
- cosmic rays 2.7.1
- crunch 2.7.1
- DEChead 2.7.1
- DP 2.7.1
- eat flaming death 2.7.1
- enhancement 2.7.1
- fascist 2.6.2
- feature 2.6.2
- fence 2.7.1
- flame 2.6.2
- flat 2.7.1
- flavor 2.6.3
- for the rest of us 2.7.1
- front end 2.6.3
- frotzed 2.7.1
- gas 2.6.3
- guiltware 2.7.1
- hack 2.7.1
- hacker 2.7.1
- indent style 2.7.1
- INTERCAL 2.7.1
- interesting 2.7.1
- interrupt 2.7.1
- ITS 2.7.1
- JCL 2.7.1
- JEDR 2.7.1
- joe code 2.7.1
- loss 2.7.1
- Macintrash 2.6.3
- magic number 2.7.1
- mailing list 2.7.1
- MEGO 2.7.1
- meme 2.7.1
- micro- 2.6.3
- milliLampson 2.7.1
- multician 2.7.1
- nano- 2.7.1
- Nightmare File System 2.7.1
- NSA line eater 2.7.1
- nuke 2.7.1
- one-liner wars 2.7.1
- quad 2.7.1
- random 2.7.1
- random numbers 2.7.1
- reincarnation, cycle of 2.7.1
- reinvent the wheel 2.7.1
- replicator 2.7.1
- restriction 2.7.1
- retrocomputing 2.7.1
- rot13 2.7.1
- SAIL 2.7.1
- second-system effect 2.6.2
- SEX 2.7.1
- SNAFU Principle 2.7.1
- software rot 2.7.1
- splat 2.7.1
- sunspots 2.7.1
- swap 2.7.1
- tick-list features 2.7.1
- toy program 2.7.1
- twonkie 2.7.1
- virtual Friday 2.7.1
- weeds 2.6.2
- wheel 2.7.1
- Weenix 2.7.1
- win 2.7.1
- win big 2.7.1
- wrap around 2.7.1
- zeroth 2.7.1
-
- Entries with only trivial changes (spelling, punctuation,
- references, minor changes of phrasing) have been omitted from the
- change list.
-
- Future versions up to 2.8.1 (whenever that is) will be posted as
- context diffs.
-
- Please get your comments and revisions in soon. The freeze deadline
- for the manuscript looms ever closer.
-
- I can also be reached by USnail at 22 S. Warren Ave., Malvern PA 19355
- or by phone at (215)-296-5718. However, I *strongly* prefer
- submissions, comments and criticism to be communicated via email.
-