<jargon, publication, humour> The on-line hacker Jargon File. A large collection of (often amusing) definitions of computing terms. Many definitions in this dictionary are from v3.0.0, 27 Jul 1993. The current version is 4.0.0 (25 Jul 1996) which corresponds to the third paper edition entitled "The New Hacker's Dictionary", due out in September 1996.
The file is available through ftp at any of the GNU archives as jarg400.txt.
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See also: Yellow Book, Jargon.
(17 Dec 1996)