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• driver n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program
  he code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• 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...
• bit twiddling: n. 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see {tune}) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improveme
  often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible....
• hang v. 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• bit twiddling n. [very common] 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improveme
  often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible....