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• batch adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify
  in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches....
• pecial-case vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in a program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing.
  This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface (as opposed, say, to text entry or normal commands), or for processing of hidden flags in the input of a batch program or filter....
• pecial-case: vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in a program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing.
  This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface (as opposed, say, to text entry or normal commands), or for processing of {hidden flag}s in the input of a batch program or {filter}....
• cycle server: n. A powerful machine that exists primarily for running large {batch} jobs.
  Implies that interactive tasks such as editing are done on other machines on the network, such as workstations....
• mainframe n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional big iron machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....
• PBST: Play Batch mode Star Trek
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• foreground vt. [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....