JargonFile/entries/Hacking X for Y.txt

Hacking X for Y

n. [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form Hacking X for Y (e.g., Hacking perceptrons for Minsky ). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan file s).
	`Hacking X for Y`

	n. [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form Hacking X for Y (e.g., Hacking perceptrons for Minsky ). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan file s).