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• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• ill-behaved: adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined {OS} interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• If you steal a hundred dollars you're a crook, but if you steal a billion dollars you're a multinational business genius.
  -- Peter McWilliam...
• 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....
• IBM compatible - IBM contemptible.
• When helping with this problem, please flame me good so that others will learn from my brazen irresponsibility.
  -- Russell Earnest (re4@prism.gatech.edu)...
• If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. -- Kelvin Throop
• IBM: It Broke Be