- SNARF
- v. To grab, esp. a large document or file for the purpose of
using it either with or without the author's permission. See BLT.
Variant: SNARF (IT) DOWN. (At MIT on ITS, DDT has a command called
:SNARF which grabs a job from another (inferior) DDT.)
- SOFTWARE ROT
- n. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been
deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will
stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has
changed". Also known as "bit decay".
- SOFTWARILY
- adv. In a way pertaining to software. "The system is
softwarily unreliable." The adjective "softwary" is NOT used. See
HARDWARILY.
- SOS
- 1. (ess-oh-ess) n. A losing editor, SON OF STOPGAP.
2. (sahss) v.
Inverse of AOS, from the PDP-10 instruction set.
- SPAZZ
- 1.v. To behave spastically or erratically; more often, to
commit a single gross error. "Boy, is he spazzing!"
2. n. One who spazzes. "Boy, what a spazz!"
3. n. The result of spazzing.
"Boy, what a spazz!"
- SPLAT
- n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the
ASCII star ("*") character.
2. (MIT) Name used by some people for
the ASCII pound-sign ("#") character.
3.(Stanford) Name used by
some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII circle-x character.
(This character is also called "circle-x", "blobby", and "frob",
among other names.)
4. (Stanford) Name for the semi-mythical
extended ASCII circle-plus character.
5. Canonical name for an
output routine that outputs whatever the the local interpretation
of splat is. Usage: nobody really agrees what character "splat"
is, but the term is common.
- SUPDUP
- v. To communicate with another ARPAnet host using the SUPDUP
program, which is a SUPer-DUPer TELNET talking a special display
protocol used mostly in talking to ITS sites. Sometimes
abbreviated to SD.
- STATE
- n. Condition, situation. "What's the state of NEWIO?" "It's
winning away." "What's your state?" "I'm about to gronk out." As
a special case, "What's the state of the world?" (or, more silly,
"State-of-world-P?") means "What's new?" or "What's going on?"
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