down in 5 minutes". 3. `take down', `bring down' /vt./ To
deactivate purposely, usually for repair work or {PM}. "I'm
taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive."
Occasionally one hears the word `down' by itself used as a verb
in this /vt./ sense. See {crash}; oppose {up}.

:download: /vt./ To transfer data or (esp.) code from a
larger `host' system (esp. a {mainframe}) over a digital
comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp. a microcomputer
or specialized peripheral. Oppose {upload}.

However, note that ground-to-space communications has its own usage
rule for this term. Space-to-earth transmission is always `down'
and the reverse `up' regardless of the relative size of the
computers involved. So far the in-space machines have invariably
been smaller; thus the upload/download distinction has been
reversed from its usual sense.

:DP: /D-P/ /n./ 1. Data Processing. Listed here because,
according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a
{suit}. See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated
Press}.

:DPB: /d*-pib'/ /vt./ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] To
plop something down in the middle. Usage: silly. "DPB yourself
into that couch there." The connotation would be that the couch
is full except for one slot just big enough for one last person to
sit in. DPB means `DePosit Byte', and was the name of a PDP-10
instruction that inserts some bits into the middle of some other
bits. Hackish usage has been kept alive by the Common LISP