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• prime time: [from TV programming] n. Normal high-usage hours on a timesharing system
  he day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for {night mode} hacking....
• bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
  Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot proms and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new machine a real development environment....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Prime-time TV is the opiate of the masses.
• blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n. [common] Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, esp.
  a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this term usually refers to status lights on a modem, network hub, or the like....
• ot ready for prime time: adj. Usable, but only just so
  ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....
• bit bang: n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
  The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....
• ot ready for prime time adj. Usable, but only just so
  ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....