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crawling horror: n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
Like {dusty deck} or {gonkulator}, but connotes ...
CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably figured and symbolized...
cray instability: n. A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine (see {cray}).
Generally more subtle than bugs ...
cray: /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine. The te...
crayola books: n. The {rainbow series} of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards (see {Orange Book}).
Usage: humorous and/or disparaging. -- The AI Hackers Dicti...
crayola: /kray-oh'l*/ n. A super-mini or -micro computer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price.
Might also be a {killer micro}. ...
Crayola presents a new color! TARDIS BLUE!!!
crayon: n. 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers.
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
Crazy=elevator#:DO:elevator#+1:UNTIL almost#=top#-1:LOOP.

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