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Jargon File
- Church of the SubGenius n.
A mutant offshoot of
Discordianism launched in 1981 as a spoof of fundamentalist
Christianity by the `Reverend' Ivan Stang,
a brilliant satirist
with a gift for...
- Cinderella Book [CMU] n.
"Introduction to Automata
Theory,
Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey...
- CI$ // n.
Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information
Service.
The dollar sign refers to CompuServe's rather steep...
- Classic C /klas'ik C/ n.
[a play on `Coke Classic']
The C programming language as defined in the first edition of
K&R,
with some small additions. It is also known as `K&...
- clean 1. adj.
Used of hardware or software designs,
implies
`elegance in the small', that is, a design...
- CLM /C-L-M/
[Sun: `Career Limiting Move'] 1. n. An action
endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and
raises,
and possibly one's job: "His Halloween costume was...
- clobber vt.
To overwrite, usually unintentionally:
"I
walked off the end of the array and clobbered...
- clock
1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that
steps a CPU or other digital circuit through its paces.
This has
nothing to do with the time of day, although...
- clocks n.
Processor logic cycles, so called because each
generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing.
The relative execution times of instructions on a machine...
- clone n.
1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of
their product." Implies a legal reimplementation from
documentation or by reverse-engineering.
Also connotes lower
price. 2....
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