avatar
1. <chat, virtual reality> An image representing a user in a multi-user
virtual reality (or VR-like, in the case of Palace) space.
2. (CMU, Tektronix) root, superuser. There are quite a few Unix computers on
which the name of the superuser account is "avatar" rather than "root". This
quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who disliked the term "superuser", and was
propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at Tektronix.
[Jargon File]
(1997-09-14)
Nearby terms:
availability « Avalon/C++ « Avalon/Common LISP « avatar
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