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Jargon File
- 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
Peace" by Danny Cohen,
USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980]
1. Describes...
- bignum /big'nuhm/ n.
[common; orig. from MIT MacLISP]
1.
[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']
1.
[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...
- bit bucket n.
[very common] 1. The universal data sink
(originally,
the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they...
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