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• SHAB: SHift A Bi
• Tear off his sign bit and SHIFT down his throat!
• bit bang n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
  The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....
• bit bang: n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
  The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....
• 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'....
• alt /awlt/ 1. n. The alt shift key on an IBM PC or clone keyboard
  ee bucky bits, sense 2 (though typical PC usage does not simply set the 0200 bit)....
• meta bit n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128-255.
  Also called high bit, alt bit, or (rarely) hobbit....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• paradigm shift...without a clutch