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• bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a compute
  person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• bandwidth: n. 1. Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
  Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• computron /kom'pyoo-tron`/ n. 1. [common] A notional unit of computing power combining instruction speed and storage capacity
  dimensioned roughly in instructions-per-second times megabytes-of-main-store times megabytes-of-mass-storage....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• Multics /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to CTSS....
• pungle n. [Durham, UK; portmanteau, spangle + bungle] A spangle of no actual usefulness.
  Example: Roger the Bent Paperclip in Microsoft Word '98....
• Nanosecond: Measure of time on mork's planet ork. -- Computing Definitio
• Wizard Book n. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Hal Abelson, Jerry Sussman and Julie Sussma
  MIT Press, 1984, 1996; ISBN 0-262-01153-0), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT....
• cycle of reincarnation: [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca.
  1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again....