- big iron n.
[common] Large, expensive, ultra-fast
computers
Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers ... - Big Red Switch n.
[IBM] The power switch on a computer
esp. the `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe... - Big Room n
(Also `Big Blue Room') The extremely large room... - big win n.
1. [common] Major success. 2. [MIT]
Serendipity
Yes, those two physicists discovered high-temperature... - big-endian adj.
[common; From Swift's "Gulliver's
Travels
via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for ... - bignum /big'nuhm/ n.
[common; orig. from MIT MacLISP]
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[techspeak] A multiple-precision computer representation... - bigot n.
[common] A person who is religiously attached to a
particular computer
language, operating system, editor, or other tool... - bit n.
[from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT']
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[techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of... - bit bang n.
Transmission of data on a serial line
when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output... - bit bashing n.
(alt. `bit diddling' or bit twiddling) Term used to describe any of several kinds of low
programming characterized by manipulation of bit, flag...
