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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>gweep</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="guru-meditation.html" title="guru meditation"/><link rel="next" href="GWF.html" title="GWF"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">gweep</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="guru-meditation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GWF.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="gweep"/><dt xmlns="" id="gweep"><b>gweep</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gweep/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [WPI] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">v.</span> To
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<a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a>, usually at night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards,
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one who gweeped could often be found at the College Computing Center
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punching cards or crashing the <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> or, later, the
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DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines that the term was
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originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick sound of the Datapoint
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terminals long connected to the PDP-10; others allege that
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‘gweep’ was the sound of the Datapoint's bell (compare
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<a href="../F/feep.html"><i class="glossterm">feep</i></a>). The term has survived the demise of those
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technologies, however, and was still alive in early 1999. “<span class="quote">I'm going
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to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning.</span>” “<span class="quote">I gweep
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from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> One who habitually gweeps
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in sense 1; a <a href="../H/hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker</i></a>. “<span class="quote">He's a hard-core
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gweep, mumbles code in his sleep.</span>” Around 1979 this was considered
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derogatory and not used in self-reference; it has since been proudly
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claimed in much the same way as <a href="geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="guru-meditation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GWF.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">guru meditation </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GWF</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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