meaning of runes

1. runes 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you havent a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close. Compare casting the runes, Great Runes. 2. Special display characters for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC. [Jargon File] runic Obscure, consisting of runes. VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as "RUnix". Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to "Very Messy Syntax" or "Vachement Mauvais Systeme" French; literally "Cowlike Bad System", idiomatically "Bitchy Bad System".

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