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• driver: n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program
  the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• hang v. 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• bit twiddling n. [very common] 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improveme
  often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible....
• hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• bit twiddling: n. 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see {tune}) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improveme
  often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible....
• 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....
• wormhole /werm'hohl/ n. [from the `wormhole' singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory] 1.
  [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine....
• main loop n. The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input.
  See also driver....