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• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. -- Laurence J. Pete
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• Labor, n: One of the processes whereby A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce
• cycle crunch n.,obs. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• prime time n. [from TV programming] Normal high-usage hours on a system or network.
  Back in the days of big timesharing machines `prime time' was when lots of people were competing for limited cycles, usually the day shift....
• Time sharing: The use of many people by the computer.
• 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'....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• Married people do it with frozen access.