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• inc: /ink/ v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for increment, i.
  e. `increase by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an `inc' mnemonic....
• dec: /dek/ v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a `dec' mnemonic....
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....
• cuspy /kuhs'pee/ adj. [WPI: from the DEC abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
  e., a utility program used by many people] 1. (of a program) Well-written....
• cuspy: /kuhs'pee/ [WPI: from the {DEC} abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
  e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1....
• Assembly programmers only get a little bit to play with.
• ITS /I-T-S/ n. 1. Incompatible Time-sharing System, an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
  Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort....
• Assembly programmers do it a byte at a time.
• green card n. [after the "IBM System/360 Reference Data" card] A summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green and not a card.
  Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of assembly language....