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:Moore's Law: /morz law/ prov. The observation that the logic density of silicon integrated circuits has closely

followed the curve (bits per square inch) = 2^((n - 1962)); that is, the amount of information storable in one

square inch of silicon has roughly doubled yearly every year since the technology was invented. See also

{Parkinson's Law of Data}.

:moose call, the: n. See {whalesong}.

:moria: /mor'ee-*/ n. Like {nethack} and {rogue}, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation

games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. Extremely addictive and a major

consumer of time better used for hacking.

:MOTAS: /moh-toz/ [USENET: Member Of The Appropriate Sex, after {MOTOS} and {MOTSS}] n. A

potential or (less often) actual sex partner. See also {SO}.

:MOTOS: /moh-tohs/ [acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via USENET: Member Of The Opposite

Sex] n. A potential or (less often) actual sex partner. See {MOTAS}, {MOTSS}, {SO}. Less common than

MOTSS or {MOTAS}, which have largely displaced it.

:MOTSS: /mots/ or /M-O-T-S-S/ [from the 1970 U.S. census forms via USENET, Member Of The Same Sex]

n. Esp. one considered as a possible sexual partner. The gay-issues newsgroup on USENET is called

soc.motss. See {MOTOS} and {MOTAS}, which derive from it. Also see {SO}.

:mouse ahead: vi. Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'. To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost

always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer

program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this

properly is rare, but it can help make a {WIMP environment} much more usable, assuming the users are

familiar with the behavior of the user interface.

:mouse around: vi. To explore public portions of a large system, esp. a network such as Internet via {FTP} or

{TELNET}, looking for interesting stuff to {snarf}.

:mouse belt: n. See {rat belt}.

:mouse droppings: [MS-DOS] n. Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer

moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left

droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are programs that write to the screen memory

corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse

drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use.

:mouse elbow: n. A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a {WIMP

environment}. Similarly, `mouse shoulder'; GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself

to be ambimoustrous.

:mouso: /mow'soh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] An error in mouse usage resulting in an inappropriate selection

or graphic garbage on the screen. Compare {thinko}, {braino}.

:MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n. A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted

together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since. Numerous features,

including vaguely UNIX-like but rather broken support for subdirectories, I/O redirection, and pipelines, were

hacked into 2.0 and subsequent versions; as a result, there are two or more incompatible versions of many

system calls, and MS-DOS programmers can never agree on basic things like what character to use as an

option switch or whether to be case-sensitive. The resulting mess is now the highest-unit-volume OS in

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history. Often known simply as DOS, which annoys people familiar with other similarly abbreviated

operating systems (the name goes back to the mid-1960s, when it was attached to IBM's first disk operating

system for the 360). The name further annoys those who know what the term {operating system} does (or

ought to) connote; DOS is more properly a set of relatively simple interrupt services. Some people like to

pronounce DOS like "dose", as in "I don't work on dose, man!", or to compare it to a dose of brain-damaging

drugs (a slogan button in wide circulation among hackers exhorts: "MS-DOS: Just say No!"). See {mess-dos},

{ill-behaved}.

:mu: /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?".

Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it

implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have

one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter (see the Bibliography

in {appendix C}), the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot

be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical

inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word `mu' is actually

from Chinese, meaning `nothing'; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not

recognize the Discordian question-denying use. It almost certainly derives from overgeneralization of the

answer in the following well-known Rinzei Zen teaching riddle:

A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" Joshu retorted, "Mu!"

See also {has the X nature}, {AI Koans}, and Douglas Hofstadter's `G"odel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden

Braid' (pointer in the Bibliography in appendix C).

:MUD: /muhd/ [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt. Multi-User Dimension] 1. n. A class of {virtual reality}

experiments accessible via the Internet. These are real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple

`locations' like an adventure game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple economic system,

and the capability for characters to build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world. 2.

vi. To play a MUD (see {hack-and-slay}). The acronym MUD is often lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one

may speak of `going mudding', etc.

Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard

Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's DEC-10 in the early 1980s; descendants of that game

still exist today (see {BartleMUD}). There is a widespread myth (repeated, unfortunately, by earlier versions

of this lexicon) that the name MUD was trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on British

Telecom (the motto: "You haven't *lived* 'til you've *died* on MUD!"); however, this is false --- Richard

Bartle explicitly placed `MUD' in PD in 1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark

claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth.

Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new

MUDs (VAXMUD, AberMUD, LPMUD). Many of these had associated bulletin-board systems for social

interaction. Because these had an image as `research' they often survived administrative hostility to BBSs in

general. This, together with the fact that USENET feeds have been spotty and difficult to get in the U.K.,

made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there.

AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the U.S.; they

became nuclei for large hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers see

parallels with the growth of USENET in the early 1980s). The second wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and

variants) tended to emphasize social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to

combat and competition. In 1991, over 50% of MUD sites are of a third major variety, LPMUD, which

synthesizes the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. The

trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue.

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