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• cycle drought n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
  The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory....
• 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'....
• 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....
• 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 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....
• eincarnation, cycle of: n. See {cycle of reincarnation}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• clocks: n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing.
  The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually discussed in clocks rather than absolute fractions of a second...
• letterbomb: 1. n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see {cycle}, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• gun: [ITS: from the `:GUN' command] vt. To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career).
  Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it....