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CDDBD.sh => <reply> $who, Read-only CDDBP Server. URL: ftp://beteigeuze.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/linux/net/
CDDBP Proxy => <reply> $who, CDDBP to HTTP proxy.. URL: http://www.phoebe.co.uk/cddb/
Cde2Kde => <reply> $who, Converts the CDE Application Manager structure into a KDE kpanel menu structure. URL: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~jlabrous/KDE/Cde2Kde/
CDfs => <reply> $who, A filesystem that exports all tracks on a CD as normal files.. URL: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/
CDGuy => <reply> $who, A GTK-Based party tape assembler. URL: http://www.acm.jhu.edu/~awhit/cdguy.html
CDJ => <reply> $who, CD player for DJs. URL: http://you.genie.co.uk/fjd/cdj/index.html
cdlabelgen => <reply> $who, Generates frontcards and traycards for CDs. URL: http://www.red-bean.com/~bwf/software/cdlabelgen/
CDlib => <reply> $who, Graphical tool to search for files in your CD-ROMs. URL: http://www.multimania.com/cdlib/
CDM => <reply> $who, Offers copying, mastering and manipulation of CD tracks. URL: http://cdm.squidge.nu
CDPlayer.app => <reply> $who, CD player with CDDB support.. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~cassio/omnicd/
zlibc => <reply> $who, Zlibc - transparently access compressed files. URL: http://zlibc.linux.lu/
CDR-Toaster => <reply> $who, Tk frontend for cd-burning. URL: http://www.jump.net/~brooke/cdrtoast/
CDRDAO => <reply> $who, Disk-At-Once Recording of Audio CD-Rs. URL: http://www.ping.de/sites/daneb/cdrdao.html
cdrecord => <reply> $who, Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs. URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
cdrecord-filters => <reply> $who, A patch for cdrecord to allow it to accept user-created modules.. URL: http://www.multimania.com/pixels/cdrecord-filters.html
cdrom_speed => <reply> $who, Small program to select cdrom drive speed. URL: http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~krivanek/cdrom_speed/
cdsetspd => <reply> $who, allows setting the reading speed of Plextor CDROM drives. URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mjm5
CDXA => <reply> $who, Play Audio from Playstation CDROM XA files. URL: http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/cdxa/
Celebrat => <reply> $who, Very simple non-interactive command-line calendar. URL: http://www.nada.kth.se/~d92-jwa/code/
cell.pl => <reply> $who, Cellular One Text Message Email. URL: http://eric.superblock.net/
centerICQ => <reply> $who, a textmode-based ICQ clone for Linux. URL: http://konst.org.ua/software.centericq.html
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International Kernel Patch => <reply> $who, Collection of internationally developed crypto for the Linux kernel. URL: http://www.kerneli.org/
Internet Junkbuster => <reply> $who, Blocks unwanted banner ads and protects your privacy. URL: http://www.junkbuster.com
Internet Log Daemon => <reply> $who, Small application that logs your ppp activity. URL: http://members.xoom.com/narkos/soft/
Internet-Phone-Jack-Driver => <reply> $who, Linux Drivers for Voice Over IP Cards. URL: http://www.quicknet.net/develop.htm
interpcom => <reply> $who, Command interpreter Library. URL: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~drezet/
INTERSHOP 3 for Linux => <reply> $who, a complete line of products for e-commerce that scales!. URL: http://www.intershop.com
interstar => <reply> $who, Browser based/javascript game. URL: http://members.xoom.com/synaesmedia/interstar/index.html
intimed => <reply> $who, A time server for synchronizing networked machines' clocks.. URL: http://goliat.eik.bme.hu/~balaton/inet/intimed-2.00.tar.gz
IntraLaunch => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.particle.net/IntraLaunch/x.html
IntraSite => <reply> $who, Intranet Website with news, search, etc.. URL: http://www.bulme.at/~zangl_th/intrasite/
Intrasite DialUp Firewall => <reply> $who, An easy to configure DialUp Firewall script with transparent proxy support etc.. URL: http://www.bulme.at/~zangl_th/intrasite-firewall/
IntraStore Server 98 => <reply> $who, Hybrid IMAP/LDAP/SMTP/Web Groupware Server. URL: http://intrastore.cdc.com/
Introduction to Linux => <reply> $who, Introduction to Linux Training Manual. URL: http://w3.one.net/~johnb/linux/
Inverse BBS => <reply> $who, BBS software for Linux. URL: http://www.darktech.org/zoob/
iod => <reply> $who, Install software on-demand on diskless clients. URL:
iODBC Driver Manager and SDK => <reply> $who, Cross Platform ODBC Driver Manager. URL: http://www.iodbc.org
iOffice2000 => <reply> $who, A Web-based groupware application suite.. URL: http://www.scseuro.de/ioffice2000/
IP Filter => <reply> $who, TCP/IP packet filter. URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html
ip2host => <reply> $who, Resolve IPs to hostnames in Web server logs.. URL: http://olympia2.adhost.com/~maurice/scripts/ip2host
ipac => <reply> $who, Linux IP accounting package. URL: http://www.comlink.apc.org/~moritz/ipac.html
IPAD => <reply> $who, Intelligent vector drawing package. URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/titan/
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slang => <reply> $who, A powerful interpreted language. URL: http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slang.html
slap => <reply> $who, SmartLabel printing for UNIX. URL: http://www.uutil.ic24.net/uutil/slap/
Slashdot Grabber => <reply> $who, Grabs the ultramode.txt file from slashdot and stores articles via MySQL. URL: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/
Slashdot Headline Grabber => <reply> $who, A Perl-based Slashdot headline-grabber. URL: http://www.srijith.net/perl/
Slashdot Reader => <reply> $who, Slashdot article and comments reader.. URL: http://pike-community.org/sites/slashdot/
slashdot.php3 => <reply> $who, Retrieves the latest slashdot news for a webpage. URL: http://swamp.chl.chalmers.se/backends/
slashem => <reply> $who, variant of the Rogue-like console game Nethack. URL: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/2458/index.html
slashes.pl => <reply> $who, A Perl/GTK Slashdot news ticker. URL: http://www.op.net/~darxus/slashes/
Slay => <reply> $who, Kills all of a users processes.. URL: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/idle/Slay.1.2.tar.gz
SldapA => <reply> $who, Simple LDAP Administration. URL: http://www.jeremias.net/projects/sldapa/
SleezeBall => <reply> $who, Make Squid replace known banners with a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF. URL: http://boost.linux.kz/sleezeball/
Sleuth => <reply> $who, A utility for checking DNS zones for bugs. URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/linux.html
SLFFEA => <reply> $who, Free Finite Element Analysis. URL: http://www.slffea.com/
Slice => <reply> $who, Extract out pre-defined slices of an ASCII file. URL: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/slice/
slideshow => <reply> $who, Slideshow on X root window/background. URL: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~carheden
SLinux => <reply> $who, Security enhancement suite for RedHat. URL: http://www.slinux.cx
Slinux Kernel => <reply> $who, Security Enhanced Linux Kernel. URL: http://www.slinux.cx/
SLiRP => <reply> $who, SLIP/PPP emulator over shell/telnet/ssh/etc.. URL: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~tygris/slirp/
slp => <reply> $who, A syslog parser and formatter script in perl. URL: http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat99oli/
slram => <reply> $who, Linux kernel patch to use uncacheable RAM as a ramdisk. URL: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~keryan/slram/
SLRN => <reply> $who, An NNTP based newsreader for Unix, VMS, and OS/2 systems. URL: http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html
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tozwgc => <reply> $who, Image to Zephyr message converter. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~maxz/programming/perl/index.html#tozwgc
tpctl => <reply> $who, a ThinkPad configuration tool for Linux. URL: http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~thood/tpctlhome.htm
tplay => <reply> $who, . URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ik/tplay.html
TPROC => <reply> $who, Very simple text processing language for assembling Text files.. URL: http://www.bluesine.tj/Software/main.html
TProcedit => <reply> $who, TProcedit is a terminal / telnet procedure editor for Oracle. URL: http://www.mattshouse.com/procedit/
traceroute => <reply> $who, Utility for tracing IP packet routes.. URL: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/
traffic-vis => <reply> $who, Network analysis tool. URL: http://www.mindrot.org/code/traffic-vis.php3
Tragic => <reply> $who, Peer to Peer chat and ftp user lookup network. URL: http://nyti.spaghetti.com/
Trailer => <reply> $who, Squid Ipchains monitoring program that is uniqe in its sort. URL: http://trailer.linuxatwork.at/
transfig => <reply> $who, Graphics Conversion Tool. URL: ftp://epb1.lbl.gov/xfig/
transgif => <reply> $who, Gif image manipulations of transparent color. URL: http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/~winterht/software.html
Traveller's Linux => <reply> $who, Minimal floppy Linux distribution. URL: http://cryogen.com/ror4/work/
tree => <reply> $who, Depth-indented directory listing program. URL: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
tree.pl => <reply> $who, Simple script to generate a html sitemap. URL: http://www.ev-stift-gymn.guetersloh.de/server/tree_e.html
TreeMultimap => <reply> $who, A Java class derived from java.util.TreeMap which allows nonunique keys. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~groovyjava/TreeMultimap/
treeps => <reply> $who, X/Motif graphical process tree visualizer. URL: http://www.slip.net/~gmd/tps/treeps.htm
treeutils => <reply> $who, Set of shell scripts for managing software installed from source distributions. URL: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~edgy/treeutils/treeutils-latest.tar.gz
treeview.cgi => <reply> $who, treeview 'widget' for html. URL: http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/math/rschiele/
Trestlemail => <reply> $who, Automatically redistributes multi-drop Fetchmail. URL: http://www.trestle.com/linux/trestlemail/
Trf => <reply> $who, Filtering channels for Tcl, MAC, Encryption, Error correction, various encodings. URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/trf/
Trfcrypt => <reply> $who, Add-on to Trf with various encryption algorithms.. URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/trfcrypt/
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yafc => <reply> $who, Yet Another FTP Client. URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~mhe/yafc/
yagIRC => <reply> $who, Yet Another GTK+ IRC Client. URL: http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon/yagirc/
YahooChart.java => <reply> $who, A Java graphical interface to Yahoo Finance stock charts. URL: http://www.sharknet.tj/~java/yahoochartJ/
yaktest => <reply> $who, A small C++ unit testing framework. URL: http://www.nyx.net/~vputz/yaktest/
YAMD => <reply> $who, Yet Another Malloc Debugger. URL: http://www3.hmc.edu/~neldredge/yamd/
YaMMS => <reply> $who, Yet another Mpg123 Music Selector. URL: http://thereactor.cleptoscastle.com/downloads.html
YAMP => <reply> $who, Mp3 player written with GTK+. URL: http://hoosier.penguinpowered.com/yamp.html
Yams => <reply> $who, An e-commerce package written in Perl and utilizing a MySQL database.. URL: http://yams.screamdesign.com/
yank => <reply> $who, Yet another notekeeper.. URL: http://home.ins.de/~m.hussmann/software/yank/
YAP Prolog System => <reply> $who, Prolog Compiler. URL: http://www.ncc.up.pt/~vsc/Yap/
YIFF Sound Server => <reply> $who, Sound server with multi-client and network-transparent io library.. URL: http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/yiff/
Yiff! for X11 => <reply> $who, A foxy puzzle game. URL: http://www.iki.fi/wwwwolf/games/xyiff.html
yip => <reply> $who, An enhancement kit for aub. URL: http://yip.boners.com
Yodl => <reply> $who, Yet oneOther Document Language. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/yodl/
Yolk => <reply> $who, A perl script and set of modules to implement an eggdrop botnet bot. URL: ftp://ftp.netsplit.com/pub/yolk/
yp-tools => <reply> $who, NIS (YP) clients. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nis.html
ypbind-mt => <reply> $who, ypbind-mt is a complete new implementation of a NIS binding daemon. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nis.html
YPlayer => <reply> $who, Graphical tool to debug Lex/Bison syntax. URL: http://www.cse.nd.edu/~arodrig6/yplayer/
ypldapd => <reply> $who, LDAP to NIS gateway. URL: http://www.padl.com/ldap-nis_gateway.html
yplot => <reply> $who, A Yorick interface to PLPlot. URL: http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/conrad/yplot.html
ypserv => <reply> $who, Simple network lookupservice consisting of databases and processes. URL: http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nis/ypserv/
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ToyFDTD2 => <reply> $who, ToyFDTD2 builds an alternate memory allocation scheme into ToyFDTD1. URL: http://www.borg.umn.edu/toyfdtd/ToyFDTD2/ToyFDTD2-v1.0.tar.gz
EJBoss => <reply> $who, EJBoss is an open-source Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) application server.. URL: http://www.ejboss.org/
Ari's Yahoo Client => <reply> $who, Ari's Yahoo Client is a compact, easy-to-use, text-based client for Yahoo! Messenger, based on yahoolib as distributed with GTKYahoo. URL: http://lusis.org/~ari/yahoo/ari-yahoo.tar.gz
Geektools Whois => <reply> $who, The Geektools Whois Proxy is an intelligent whois client written in Perl which automatically determines, queries and returns formatted results from the correct registry for a given domain name or IP address. URL: http...
comics.pl => <reply> $who, comics.pl automatically gets the newest comic for many online comic strips. URL: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pnf1/comics/
Project Lightbulb => <reply> $who, Project Lightbulb uses distributed computing and a genetic algorithm to find patterns and predict trends in data. URL: http://www.malign.net/lightbulb/lightbulb-1.0.tar.gz
gamp => <reply> $who, gamp is an ncurses-based console MP3 player for Linux. URL: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~wburdick/gamp/
autoresponder => <reply> $who, Autoresponder is a program to make and configure autoresponders with procmail.. URL: http://autoresponder.clan-io.net/autoresponder-0.1.tar.gz
Ultra Power Rubix Cube Max II => <reply> $who, Ultra Power Rubix Cube Max II is the definite Rubick's cube system. URL: http://sed.free.fr/rubix/
The PHP Text Graph Script => <reply> $who, The PHP Text Graph Script (PTGS) is a simple script that enables the production of bar graphs using text alone. URL: http://www.atari.co.uk/textgraph/
Stubby => <reply> $who, Stubby is a tool that enables programmers and packagers to add transparent support for optional run-time dynamic linking of shared libraries. URL: http://onegeek.org/~tom/software/stubby/dl/
3dfile => <reply> $who, 3dfile is a simple OpenGL-based file browser. URL:
quietrun => <reply> $who, quietrun is a tiny shell-script for running a command and hiding its output unless the exit code of the command wasn't zero. URL: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/quietrun
csnes9x => <reply> $who, csnes9x is a small and quick snes9x front end for the command line console. URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~joelgg/csnes9x-0.9.10.tar.gz
BW whois => <reply> $who, BW whois is a replacement for the original whois program which works properly with the modified whois system that resulted from ICANN's takeover of the root domain system. URL: http://bw.org/whois/whois
remoted => <reply> $who, remoted provides an easy way to associate X10 MouseRemote remote control keypresses to shell commands, and runs on UNIX (tested using Linux). URL: http://www.sourcesurfer.com/misc/release/remoted.1.0.tar.gz
Groovy Java Database => <reply> $who, Groovy Java Database implements an object-oriented database. URL: http://www.linuxstart.com/~groovyjava/Database/Database-0.1.src.zip
apt-proxy => <reply> $who, apt-proxy is a simple script to build up a Debian FTP mirror based on requests which pass through the proxy. URL: ftp://ftp.linuxcare.com.au/pub/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-0.1.tar.bz2
konkhydra => <reply> $who, Konkhydra is a program that lets you control multiple X servers from one keyboard and mouse. URL: http://www.konkers.net/~konkers/konkhydra/konkhydra-0.0.1.tar.gz
Gift => <reply> $who, Gift is a Java platform which allows developers to create custom editors dedicated to any representation language or formalism. URL: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/ats/gift/download/download.html
CodeGuide => <reply> $who, CodeGuide is an IDE that detects errors in your code as you type, offers powerful code completion features, maintains a structured view of your program, has an integrated visual debugger, supports the latest Java technologi...
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gps3d => <reply> $who, gps is a set of utilities that lets you manipulate your GPS from your Linux box. URL: http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/gps3d-1.1.tar.bz2
jString => <reply> $who, jString is a class for C++ that extends basic string functionality. URL: http://simple.dhs.org/src/jString/jString-0.1.tar.gz
NatesWinEmu => <reply> $who, In the spirit of GTKTrue, NatesWinEmu is a Windows Emulator for Linux. URL: http://www.udlug.org/~nate/NatesWinEmu.c
GtkExtra => <reply> $who, GTKExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUIs for the X Window System using GTK+. URL: http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/gtk/download.html
Demolization => <reply> $who, Demolization is a strategy game which is a cross between Sid Meier's Civilization and Risk. URL: http://demolization.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
GMCAL => <reply> $who, GMCAL is a GTK+ frontend for the libmcal package.. URL: http://mcal.chek.com/download.php3
LCD::MatrixOrbital => <reply> $who, A Perl module that allows a developer to write to a Matrix Orbital LCD Serial Display. URL: http://www.evilsoft.org/Software/dist/MatrixOrbital-0_91_tar.gz
tixinfo => <reply> $who, tixinfo allows you to get some information about your system. URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/diaboli/tixinfo/tixinfo0.6.4.tar.gz
BASHISH => <reply> $who, Bashish is a theme-engine for bash and other Bourne-style shells (eg. URL: http://hem3.passagen.se/arnognulf/files/
Moonlight Atelier => <reply> $who, Moonlight Atelier is a 3D modeling and rendering application that delivers a complete set of tools to create images and visual effects on Linux platform: NURBS Curve Creation and Edition, NURBS Surface Creation and ...
ESP Print Pro => <reply> $who, ESP Print Pro is a complete printing solution that prints international text, Adobe PostScript, PDF, HP-GL/2, GIF(SM), TIFF, PNG, JPEG/JFIF, SGI RGB, Sun Raster, PhotoCD, PBM, PGM, and PPM files transparently to over 16...
Flux => <reply> $who, Flux speeds up application development. URL: ftp://ftp.styx.net/projects/flux/
YaRET => <reply> $who, YaRET is a Perl script that automates the ripping, encoding, and tagging of CDs. URL: http://lorien.intranet-team.it/~mnencia/yaret/yaret-current.tar.gz
bkmrkconv => <reply> $who, bkmrkconv will convert Netscape's bookmarks.html file into a series of interconnected HTML pages which can be put online. URL: http://www.eh.org/~jaffa/bkmrkconv/bkmrkconv.tar.gz
cf => <reply> $who, cf is a Java command-line tool for checking integrity, detecting the format, and getting content info on files in popular image, sound, movie, and archive file formats. URL: http://www.geocities.com/~marcoschmidt/cf/download.html
ZBase => <reply> $who, ZBase is a set of classes written in PHP4 to develop the WWW frontend of a database very quickly and simply. URL: http://zbase.via.ecp.fr/zbase-latest.tar.gz
IcomLib => <reply> $who, Icomlib is a C++ API for application development for the Icom PCR-1000 Communications Receiver. URL: http://www.ghetto.org/projects/icomlib-0.9.0.tar.gz
MidiShare => <reply> $who, MidiShare is a musical operating system designed for the Macintosh, Windows, Atari, and Linux. URL: ftp://www.grame.fr/pub/MidiShare/Linux/
CDirCase => <reply> $who, cdircase is a program to convert the case of file names and directory names in a directory. URL: http://venus.spaceports.com/~alkatraz/
KSendmail => <reply> $who, KSendmail is a management system for Sendmail. URL: http://devel-home.kde.org/~ksmt/ksendmail-0.7.tar.gz
PuzzleSquare => <reply> $who, PuzzleSquare is an amusment with limited educational value. URL: http://www.shore.net/~cpuffer/PuzzleSquare-0.0.tar.bz2
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cosmic rays3 is errors (this becomes increasingly more likely as memory sizes and densities increase). Factual note Alpha particles cause bit rot, cosmic rays do not (except occasionally in spaceborne computers). Intel could not explain ran...
cosmic rays4 is hypothesis was cosmic rays. So they created the World's Largest Lead Safe, using 25 tons of the stuff, and used two identical boards for testing. One was placed in the safe, one outside. The hypothesis was that if cosmic r...
cosmic rays5 is a statistically significant difference between the error rates on the two boards. They did not observe such a difference. Further investigation demonstrated conclusively that the bit drops were due to alpha particle emissio...
cosmic rays6 is uranium) in the encapsulation material. Since it is impossible to eliminate these radioactives (they are uniformly distributed through the earth's crust, with the statistically insignificant exception of uranium lodes) it beca...
cosmic rays7 is to withstand these hits.
cough and die is v. Syn. {barf}. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died."
cowboy is [Sun, from William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF] n. Synonym for {hacker}. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence.
CP/M is /C-P-M/ n. [Control Program for Microcomputers] An early microcomputer {OS} written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and Z80-based machines, very popular in the late 1970s but virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM ...
CP/M2 is company blew its chance to write the OS for the IBM PC because Kildall decided to spend a day IBM's reps wanted to meet with him enjoying the perfect flying weather in his private plane. Many of CP/M's features and conventions stro...
CP/M3 is systems such as {{TOPS-10}}, OS/8, RSTS, and RSX-11. See {{MS-DOS}}, {operating system}.
CPU Wars is /C-P-U worz/ n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers)....
CPU Wars2 is many references to {ADVENT} and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM com...
CPU Wars3 is J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See {eat flaming death}.
cracker is n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of {hacker} (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981--82 on USENET was largely a fa...
crank is [from automotive slang] vt. Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance. "This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 {megaflops}, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations."
crash is 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.v., sense 1), sometimes of magnetic disk drives. "Three {luser}s lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write he...
crash2 is and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a `head crash', whereas the term `system crash' usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault. 2. v. To fail suddenly. "Has the s...
crash3 is OS!" See {down}. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing {SPACEWAR} crashed the system." 3. vi. Sometimes said of people hitting the sack after a l...
crash and burn is vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators. Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backpla...
crash and burn2 is The construction `crash-and-burn machine' is reported for a computer used exclusively for alpha or {beta} testing, or reproducing bugs (i.e., not for development). The implication is that it wouldn't be such a disaster if...
crash and burn3 is would be inconvenienced.
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interrupt list, the is [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu). As of ear...
interrupts locked out is When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is...
interrupts locked out2 is have one's interrupt mask bit set" or "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also {spl}.
iron is 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 ...
Iron Age is n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial {mainframe} technology, when {big iron} {dinosaur}s ruled the earth. These began with the delivery of the first PDP-1, coincided with the dominance of ...
Iron Age2 is introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box is [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a {cracker} logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified {shell} restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files...
iron box2 is on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger is [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}.
ITS is /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to hav...
ITS2 is instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort. ITS pioneered many important innovations, including transparent file sharing between machines and terminal-independent I/O. After about 1982, most actual work was shifted to new...
ITS3 is essentially as a hobby and service to the hacker community. The shutdown of the lab's last ITS machine in May 1990 marked the end of an era and sent old-time hackers into mourning nationwide (see {high moby}). The Royal Institute of ...
ITS4 is `live' ITS site at its computer museum (right next to the only TOPS-10 system still on the Internet), so ITS is still alleged to hold the record for OS in longest continuous use (however, {{WAITS}} is a credible rival for this palm). ...
ITS5 is operating-system perfection worshiped by a bizarre, fervent retro-cult of old-time hackers and ex-users (see {troglodyte}, sense 2). ITS worshipers manage somehow to continue believing that an OS maintained by assembly-language hand...
ITS6 is 6-character filenames in one directory per account remains superior to today's state of commercial art (their venom against UNIX is particularly intense). See also {holy wars}, {Weenix}.
IWBNI is // [acronym] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare {WIBNI}.
IYFEG is // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See {JEDR}.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrar...
IYFEG2 is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly `some particular' or `any specific one'. "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are `J. Random Hacker', `J. Random Loser', an...
IYFEG3 is be allowed to {gun} down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of {random} in any sense.
J. Random Hacker is [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See {random}, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee...
jaggies is /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
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to a zeroth approximation is [from `to a first approximation] A *really* sloppy approximation; a wild guess. Compare {social science number}.
toast is 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast." 2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manua...
toast2 is {firewall machine} again."
toaster is n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "{DWIM} for an assembler? Thatd...
toaster2 is toaster!" 2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster." See {bitty box}, {Get a real computer!}, {toy}, {beige toaster}. 3. A Macintosh, esp. the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied b...
toaster3 is my box without toasters, but since then Ive added two boards and a second disk drive."
toeprint is n. A {footprint} of especially small size.
toggle is vt. To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches, such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle actually refers to the mechanism...
toggle2 is which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it. (Mathematically, one would say t...
toggle3 is functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about toggling bits.)
tool is 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose {app}, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple,...
tool2 is interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter}). 3. [MIT general to students there] vi. To work; to study (connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as "to set ones brain ...
tool3 is A student who studies too much and hacks too little. (MITs student humor magazine rejoices in the name `Tool and Die.)
toolsmith is n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes in making the {tool}s with which other programmers create applications. See also {uninteresting}.
topic drift is n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results ...
topic drift2 is reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *thats* topic drift!"
topic group is n. Syn. {forum}.
TOPS-10 is /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10} machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {{ITS}}, {{TOPS-20}}, {{TWENEX}}, {VMS}, {operating...
TOPS-102 is BOTS-10 (from `bottoms-ten) as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
TOPS-20 is /tops-twentee/ n. See {{TWENEX}}.
toto is /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone {foo}.
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cosmic rays => n. Notionally, the cause of {bit rot}. However, this is a semi-independent usage that may be invoked as a humorous way to handwave away any minor randomness that doesn't seem worth the bother of investigating. "Hey, Eric --- I just got...
cosmic rays2 => tube, where did that come from?" "Cosmic rays, I guess." Compare sunspots, {phase of the moon}. The British seem to prefer the usage `cosmic showers'; `alpha particles' is also heard, because stray alpha particles passing through a me...
cosmic rays3 => errors (this becomes increasingly more likely as memory sizes and densities increase). Factual note Alpha particles cause bit rot, cosmic rays do not (except occasionally in spaceborne computers). Intel could not explain random bit dr...
cosmic rays4 => hypothesis was cosmic rays. So they created the World's Largest Lead Safe, using 25 tons of the stuff, and used two identical boards for testing. One was placed in the safe, one outside. The hypothesis was that if cosmic rays were cau...
cosmic rays5 => a statistically significant difference between the error rates on the two boards. They did not observe such a difference. Further investigation demonstrated conclusively that the bit drops were due to alpha particle emissions from tho...
cosmic rays6 => uranium) in the encapsulation material. Since it is impossible to eliminate these radioactives (they are uniformly distributed through the earth's crust, with the statistically insignificant exception of uranium lodes) it became obvio...
cosmic rays7 => to withstand these hits.
cough and die => v. Syn. barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died."
cowboy => [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] n. Synonym for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence.
CP/M => /C-P-M/ n. [Control Program for Microcomputers] An early microcomputer OS written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and Z80-based machines, very popular in the late 1970s but virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM PC in 198...
CPU Wars => /C-P-U worz/ n. A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This r...
CPU Wars2 => many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company station...
CPU Wars3 => J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See {eat flaming death}.
cracker => n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981--82 on USENET was largely a failure.
crank => [from automotive slang] vt. Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance. "This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations."
crash => 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.v., sense 1), sometimes of magnetic disk drives. "Three lusers lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping o...
crash and burn => vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators. Sun-3 monitors losing the flyback transformer and lightning strikes on VAX-11/780 backplanes are ...
crash and burn2 => The construction `crash-and-burn machine' is reported for a computer used exclusively for alpha or beta testing, or reproducing bugs (i.e., not for development). The implication is that it wouldn't be such a disaster if that machin...
crash and burn3 => would be inconvenienced.
crawling horror => n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like {dusty deck} or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an ac...
crawling horror2 => "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big FORTRAN II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror...." Compare WOMBAT.
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interrupt => 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also trap. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly...
interrupt list, the => [MS-DOS] n. The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatibles, maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown (ralf@cs.cmu.edu). As of early 1991,...
interrupts locked out => When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym `interrupts disabled' is also com...
interrupts locked out2 => have one's interrupt mask bit set" or "interrupts masked out" is also heard. See also spl.
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. See ...
Iron Age => n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial mainframe technology, when {big iron} dinosaurs ruled the earth. These began with the delivery of the first PDP-1, coincided with the dominance of ferrite core...
Iron Age2 => introduction of the first commercial microprocessor (the Intel 4004) in 1971. See also {Stone Age}; compare {elder days}.
iron box => [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the hacker's movements in unobvious ways, and `bait' files designed to...
iron box2 => on. See also {back door}, {firewall machine}, {Venus flytrap}, and Clifford Stoll's account in `The Cuckoo's Egg' of how he made and used one (see the Bibliography). Compare {padded cell}.
ironmonger => [IBM] n. Derogatory. A hardware specialist. Compare sandbender, {polygon pusher}.
ITS => /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab. Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `...
IWBNI => // [acronym] `It Would Be Nice If'. Compare WIBNI.
IYFEG => // [USENET] Abbreviation for `Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group'. Used as a meta-name when telling racist jokes on the net to avoid offending anyone. See JEDR.*J. Random /J rand'm/ n. [generalized from {J. Random Hacker}] Arbitrary; ordinary...
J. Random Hacker => [MIT] /J rand'm hak'r/ n. A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the archetypal hacker nerd. See random, {Suzie COBOL}. This may originally have been inspired or influenced by `J. Fred Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee whose name...
jaggies => /jag'eez/ n. The `stairstep' effect observable when an edge (esp. a linear edge of very shallow or steep slope) is rendered on a pixel device (as opposed to a vector display).
JCL => /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language. JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems. JCL has a very fascist syntax, and some versions will, for example, barf if two spaces appear...
JEDR => // n. Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the USENET newsgroup rec.humor.funny tended to use `JEDR' instead of IYFEG or `<ethnic>'; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initials JEDR aft...
JFCL => /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ vt., obs. (alt. `jfcl') To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag set and t...
jiffy => n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. "The swapper runs every 6 jif...
job security => n. When some piece of code is written in a particularly obscure fashion, and no good reason (such as time or space optimization) can be discovered, it is often said that the programmer was attempting to increase his job security (i.e....
job security2 => for maintenance). This sour joke seldom has to be said in full; if two hackers are looking over some code together and one points at a section and says "job security", the other one may just nod.
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TLA => /T-L-A/ [Three-Letter Acronym] n. 1. Self-describing acronym for a species with which computing terminology is infested. 2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA. People who like this looser...
TMRC => /tmerk/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture. The 1959 `Dictionary of the TMRC Language compiled by Peter Samson included several terms which became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp. foo an...
to a first approximation => 1. [techspeak] When one is doing certain numerical computations, an approximate solution may be computed by any of several heuristic methods, then refined to a final value. By using the starting point of a first approximat...
to a first approximation2 => algorithm that converges more quickly to the correct result. 2. In jargon, a preface to any comment that indicates that the comment is only approximately true. The remark "To a first approximation, I feel good" might indi...
to a first approximation3 => reveal that not all is perfect (e.g., a nagging cough still remains after an illness).
to a zeroth approximation => [from `to a first approximation] A *really* sloppy approximation; a wild guess. Compare {social science number}.
toast => 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast." 2. vt. To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual reboot...
toaster => n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "DWIM for an assembler? Thatd be as sill...
toeprint => n. A footprint of especially small size.
toggle => vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches, such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle actually refers to the mechanism that keep...
tool => 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose app, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple, `transpar...
toolsmith => n. The software equivalent of a tool-and-die specialist; one who specializes in making the tools with which other programmers create applications. See also uninteresting.
topic drift => n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that t...
topic drift2 => reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Nivens last book, but weve ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *thats* topic drift!"
topic group => n. Syn. forum.
TOPS-10 => /tops-ten/ n. DECs proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see appendix A. See also {ITS}, {TOPS-20}, {TWENEX}, VMS, {operating system}. TOPS-10 ...
TOPS-20 => /tops-twentee/ n. See {TWENEX}.
toto => /tohtoh/ n. This is reported to be the default scratch file name among French-speaking programmers --- in other words, a francophone foo.
tourist => [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some so...
tourist information => n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewers gestalt of whats going on with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category depends p...
tourist information2 => for at any given time. The `bytes free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS `dir display is tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a UNIX `ps(1) display.
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rfc 1037 => NFILE - a file access protocol. B. Greenberg, S. Keene. Dec-01-1987. (Format: TXT=197312 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1036 => Standard for interchange of USENET messages. M.R. Horton, R. Adams. Dec-01-1987. (Format: TXT=46891 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0850) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1035 => Domain names - implementation and specification. P.V. Mockapetris. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=125626 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0973, RFC0882, RFC0883) (Updated by RFC1101, RFC1183, RFC1348, RFC1876, RFC1982, RFC1995, RFC1996, RFC2065, RFC2181, ...
rfc 1034 => Domain names - concepts and facilities. P.V. Mockapetris. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=129180 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0973, RFC0882, RFC0883) (Obsoleted by RFC1065) (Updated by RFC1101, RFC1183, RFC1348, RFC1876, RFC1982, RFC2065, RFC2181) (Sta...
rfc 1033 => Domain administrators operations guide. M. Lottor. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=37263 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1032 => Domain administrators guide. M.K. Stahl. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=29454 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1031 => MILNET name domain transition. W.D. Lazear. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=20137 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1030 => On testing the NETBLT Protocol over divers networks. M.L. Lambert. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=40964 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1029 => More fault tolerant approach to address resolution for a Multi-LAN system of Ethernets. G. Parr. May-01-1988. (Format: TXT=44019 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1028 => Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol. J. Davin, J.D. Case, M. Fedor, M.L. Schoffstall. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=82440 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1027 => Using ARP to implement transparent subnet gateways. S. Carl-Mitchell, J.S. Quarterman. Oct-01-1987. (Format: TXT=21297 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1026 => Addendum to RFC 987: (Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822). S.E. Kille. Sep-01-1987. (Format: TXT=7117 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1327) (Updates RFC0987) (Updated by RFC1138, RFC1148) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1025 => TCP and IP bake off. J. Postel. Sep-01-1987. (Format: TXT=11648 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1024 => HEMS variable definitions. C. Partridge, G. Trewitt. Oct-01-1987. (Format: TXT=126536 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1023 => HEMS monitoring and control language. G. Trewitt, C. Partridge. Oct-01-1987. (Format: TXT=40992 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1076) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1022 => High-level Entity Management Protocol (HEMP). C. Partridge, G. Trewitt. Oct-01-1987. (Format: TXT=25348 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1021 => High-level Entity Management System (HEMS). C. Partridge, G. Trewitt. Oct-01-1987. (Format: TXT=12993 bytes) (Status: HISTORIC)
rfc 1020 => Internet numbers. S. Romano, M.K. Stahl. Nov-01-1987. (Format: TXT=146864 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0997) (Obsoleted by RFC1062, RFC1117, RFC1166) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1019 => Report of the Workshop on Environments for Computational Mathematics. D. Arnon. Sep-01-1987. (Format: TXT=21151 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1018 => Some comments on SQuID. A.M. McKenzie. Aug-01-1987. (Format: TXT=7931 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
rfc 1017 => Network requirements for scientific research: Internet task force on scientific computing. B.M. Leiner. Aug-01-1987. (Format: TXT=49512 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)