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• Time-sharing is the junk-mail part of the computer business. -- H.R.J. Grosch (attributed)
• Time sharing ends in 5 minutes.
• Time is money, and many people pay their debts with it.
• foreground vt. [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• imesharing, n: An access method whereby one computer abuses many people.
• If this is time-sharing, give me my share right now. It's not time yet.
• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....