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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Hacking X for Y</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hacking-run.html" title="hacking run"/><link rel="next" href="Hackintosh.html" title="Hackintosh"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Hacking X for Y</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacking-run.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hackintosh.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Hacking-X-for-Y"/><dt xmlns="" id="Hacking-X-for-Y"><b>Hacking X for Y</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made
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publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record)
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was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On
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display, two of these fields were always combined into a project
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description of the form “<span class="quote">Hacking X for Y</span>” (e.g.,
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“<span class="quote">Hacking perceptrons for Minsky</span>”). This form of description
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became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with
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more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix
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<a href="../P/plan-file.html"><i class="glossterm">plan file</i></a>s).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hacking-run.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hackintosh.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hacking run </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Hackintosh</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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