sysprog

English

Etymology

Blend of system +‎ programmer.

Noun

sysprog (plural sysprogs)

1. (computing, colloquial, dated) A systems programmer.
   • 2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19:

     The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.

See also

• sysadmin, sysop