WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or
hardware works; someone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency.
Rarely used at MIT, where HACKER is the preferred term. 2. A person
who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people, e.g., a
"net wizard" on a TENEX may run programs which speak
low-level host-imp protocol; an ADVENT wizard at SAIL may play
Adventure during the day.