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/te-lə-rat/

n. Unflattering hackerism for Teleray, a line of extremely losing terminals.

See also terminak, sun-stools, HP-SUX.

/tē/

n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission.

"Oh, you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me."

From the UNIX command 'tee(1)', itself named after a pipe fitting (see plumbing). Can also mean 'save one for me', as in "Tee a slice for me!" Also spelled 'T'.

/tā-kō/

obs. 1. vt. Originally, to edit using the TECO editor in one of its infinite variations (see below). 2. vt.,obs. To edit even when TECO is *not* the editor being used! This usage is rare and now primarily historical.

/tek-ref/

[MS-DOS]

n. The original IBM PC Technical Reference Manual, including the BIOS listing and complete schematics for the PC. The only PC documentation in the issue package that's considered serious by real hackers.

/tē, ISO stan-dərd kəp əv/

[South Africa]

n. A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of sugar, where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO 0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and so on.

/T-C-B/

[IBM]

n. 1. Trouble Came Back. An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect.

Compare heisenbug. Not to be confused with:

2. Trusted Computing Base, an official jargon term from the Orange Book.

/tāst/

n. Two bits; also as taste. 

Syn. crumb, quarter.

Compare byte, dynner, playte, nybble, quad.

/tāst/

[primarily MIT]

n. 

/tär ən(d) fe-t͟hər/

[from UNIX 'tar(1)']

vt. To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with 'tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed 'feathering' by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.

/taŋ(k)t/

adj. Same as down, used primarily by UNIX hackers.

See also hosed.

Popularized as a synonym for drunk by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip.