; jargon-addenda v 1.0.0
; MIT addenda to v 4.0.0 of the jargon file
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; last modified 1998.06.22 xela
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; or remarks about where in the jargon file an item should be
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; Note: this is a personal project of mine (me being Carl Alexander
; (Alex to my friends), xela@mit.edu).  I'm doing this because I think
; esr has been lame about maintaining the jargon file, but haven't
; wanted to try to organize people to offer to take it over from him.
; (Note: I think his lameness stems at least in part from the fact
; that he has a whole bunch of other worthy undertakings tugging at
; his time --- I'm not making a personal attack on esr here....) So
; I'm compiling things I and my friends think should be added in the
; hope of a future friendly merger of this file and jargon.txt.
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; Add to section :Other Lexicon Conventions:
; in the "list of abbreviations used in etymologies":
;

SIPB
     Some more recent MITisms have emerged from (or at least 
     first been noticed as emerging jargon by) the Student
     Information Processing Board, MIT's student computer club,
     which has sometimes played a leading role in the MIT hacker
     community since the early 1970s.

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; Add to section The Jargon Lexicon
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:Athena: /n./ [techspeak]
; Somebody else *please* take a shot at this....     

:chrooted jail: /n./



:kernel: /n./ [techspeak]
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:splufty: 1. /adj./ Of hardware, that is is new, cool, well-engineered, 
and just generally nifty.  2. syn. {featureful}; winning.  3. Used to
describe the state of a system or person, implies that all is well,
with overtones of warm contentedness.  Often used ironically, as in
"Oh isn't that just splufty" of a system that's {wedged}.  Contrast
{crufty}.

:stark: /vi./ [SIPB: from Greg Stark, who habitually contributes
remarks to conversational threads on MIT's {zephyr} instant messaging
service after everyone else has already {swapped out} the thread.]
To add a remark to a conversation in which all the other participants
have moved on to a new topic, usually in a text medium such as {zephyr}. 
Sometimes people will signal that they wish to ressurect a topic by
prefacing a remark with "starking".

:userland: /n./ [Unix] That which is not the {kernel}.
; this needs to be expanded upon a bit.

:zephyr: /n./ [MIT: an instant messaging system developed at MIT in the 
; in association with?  as part of?
late 1980s in association with the {Athena} project.  
; steal from someone else's already well-thought-out definition....
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; Un-dealt-with suggestions below this line
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