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• wetware /wet'weir/ n. [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1.
  The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software....
• egister dancing n. Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers.
  This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation....
• egister dancing: n. Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers.
  This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation....
• wetware: /wet'weir/ [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] n.
  1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• accumulator n. obs. 1. Archaic term for a register.
  On-line use of it as a synonym for `register' is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old....
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....