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• vaxism: /vak'sizm/ n. A piece of code that exhibits {vaxocentrism} in critical areas.
  Compare {PC-ism}, {unixism}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• PC-ism /P-C-izm/ n. A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like running DOS, e.
  g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timing loops....
• PC-ism: /P-C-izm/ n. A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.
  g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timing loops....
• unixism n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems.
  Common unixisms include: gratuitous use of fork(2)...
• unixism: n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory UNIX systems.
  Common {unixism}s include: gratuitous use of `fork(2)'...
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• ame-day service n. Ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute).
  Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved....
• hamster n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel....
• hamster: n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster {happily} spinning its exercise wheel....