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資料來源(1): Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]

  TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the
     wellsprings of hacker culture. The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC
     Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became
     basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp. {foo}, {mung}, and {frob}).
  
     By 1962, TMRC's legendary layout was already a marvel of complexity
     and has grown in the years since. All the features described here were
     still present when the old layout was decomissioned in 1998 just before
     the demolition of MIT Building 20, and will almost certainly be retained
     when the old layout is rebuilt (expected in 2003). The control system
     alone featured about 1200 relays. There were {scram switch}es located at
     numerous places around the room that could be thwacked if something
     undesirable was about to occur, such as a train going full-bore at an
     obstruction. Another feature of the system was a digital clock on the
     dispatch board, which was itself something of a wonder in those bygone
     days before cheap LEDs and seven-segment displays. When someone hit a
     scram switch the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the
     word `FOO'; at TMRC the scram switches are therefore called `foo
     switches'.
  
     Steven Levy, in his book "Hackers" (see the {Bibliography} in Appendix
     C), gives a stimulating account of those early years. TMRC's Signals and
     Power Committee included many of the early PDP-1 hackers and the people
     who later became the core of the MIT AI Lab staff. Thirty years later
     that connection is still very much alive, and this lexicon accordingly
     includes a number of entries from a recent revision of the TMRC
     dictionary.
  
     TMRC has a web page at `http://tmrc-www.mit.edu'. The TMRC Dictionary
     is available there, at `http://tmrc-www.mit.edu/dictionary.html'.
  
  

資料來源(2): Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [foldoc]

  TMRC
  
     /tmerk'/ The Tech Model Railroad Club at {MIT}, one of the
     wellsprings of {hacker} culture.  The 1959 "Dictionary of the
     TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms
     that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see especially
     {foo}, {mung}, and {frob}).
  
     By 1962, TMRC's legendary layout was already a marvel of
     complexity (and has grown in the thirty years since; all the
     features described here are still present).  The control
     system alone featured about 1200 relays.  There were {scram
     switch}es located at numerous places around the room that
     could be thwacked if something undesirable was about to occur,
     such as a train going full-bore at an obstruction.  Another
     feature of the system was a digital clock on the dispatch
     board, which was itself something of a wonder in those bygone
     days before cheap LEDS and seven-segment displays.  When
     someone hit a scram switch the clock stopped and the display
     was replaced with the word "FOO"; at TMRC the scram switches
     are therefore called "foo switches".
  
     Steven Levy, in his book "Hackers", gives a stimulating
     account of those early years.  TMRC's Power and Signals group
     included most of the early {PDP-1} hackers and the people who
     later bacame the core of the {MIT} {AI Lab} staff.  Thirty
     years later that connection is still very much alive, and this
     dictionary accordingly includes a number of entries from a
     recent revision of the TMRC dictionary (via the Hacker Jargon
     File).
  
     [{Jargon File}]