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• ore n. [prob. from techspeak `main store'] In some varieties of Commonwealth hackish, the preferred synonym for core.
  Thus, `bringing a program into store' means not that one is returning shrink-wrapped software but that a program is being swapped in....
• core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• memory leak: n. An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion.
  Also (esp. at CMU) called {core leak}. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out....
• UUCPNET: n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software).
  Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is on UUCPNET....
• wap: vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
  Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'....
• main loop: n. The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input.
  See also {driver}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ybble: /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') [from v. `nibble' by analogy with `bite' => `byte'] n.
  Four bits; one {hex} digit; a half-byte. Though `byte' is now techspeak, this useful relative is still jargon....