glark /glark/ vt.
To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals
are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from
context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the
context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English
flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from
context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his
"Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific
American"). It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb
to `glark' because glork was already
an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the
original term). Compare grok, zen.
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glass n.
[IBM] Synonym for silicon.
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glass tty /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n.
A terminal that has a display screen but which, because of
hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some
other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of
both: like a printing terminal, it can't do fancy display hacks,
and like a display terminal, it doesn't produce hard copy. An
example is the early `dumb' version of Lear-Siegler ADM 3
(without cursor control). See tube,
tty; compare dumb terminal, smart terminal. See "TV Typewriters" (Appendix A) for an
interesting true story about a glass tty.