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• Cache: A very expensive part of the memory system of a computer that no one is supposed to know is there.
• MEMORY: A component of a computer that holds data. Sometimes it doesn't.
  Amount present in a given system is calculated in a manner similar to REGISTERS (see)....
• If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery.
  But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dare criticise it....
• blit /blit/ vt. 1. [common] To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
  particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....
• A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
  -- Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992...
• If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage.
  But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it....