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Memory Farts N. The Flatulent Sounds That Some DOS Box BIOSes (most Notably AMI's) Make When Checking Memory On Bootup.
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memory farts n.
The flatulent sounds that some DOS box
BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
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memory farts: n. The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hole n. A region in an otherwise flat entity which is not actually present.
For example, some Unix filesystems can store large files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually stored on disk....
Polynesia (n.) loss of memory in parro
moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
I am DOS of Borg. Prepare...oops, out of memory!
Remember when 64k was alot of memory?
When your memory goes, forget it!
I will not make flatulent noises in class.
arena: [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by `brk(2)' and `sbrk(2)' and used by `malloc(3)' as dynamic storage.
So named from a `malloc: corrupt arena' message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list....