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• mode bit n. [common] A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation.
  The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program....
• flag: n. A variable or quantity that can take on one of two value
  a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done....
• flag n. [very common] A variable or quantity that can take on one of two value
  a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• widdle: n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~'). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
  2. A small and insignificant change to a program....
• golf-ball printer: n. The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter.
  The `golf ball' was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude...
• bit bashing: n. (alt. `bit diddling' or {bit twiddling}) Term used to describe any of several kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of {bit}
  {flag}, {nybble}, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data...
• Introducing, the 1010, a one-bit processor. INSTRUCTION SET Code Mnemonic What 0 NOP No Operation 1 JMP Jump (address specified by next 2 bits) Now Available for only 12 1/2 cents!
• bit n. [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1.
  [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable....