Matrix n.
[FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call FidoNet. 2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from
current networking experiments (see the network). The name of the rather
good 1999 cypherpunk movie "The
Matrix" played on this sense, which however had been established
for years before. 3. The totality of present-day computer
networks (popularized in this sense by John Quarterman; rare
outside academic literature).
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maximum Maytag mode n.
What a washing machine
or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's being used so
heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced
load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks
becoming walking drives.
In 1999 it's been some years since hard disks were large enough
to do this, but the same phenomenon has recently been reported
with 24X CD-ROM drives.