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• crayon: n. 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers.
  More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender)....
• 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....
• 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....
• cray instability n. 1. 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 that can be detected in smaller problems running on a workstation or mini....
• DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
  2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors....
• 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....
• front end n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end').
  2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention....
• front end: n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end').
  2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention....
• oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....