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killer app The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology.
First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident ...
killer micro n. [popularized by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf.
Often heard in "No one will survive the...
killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control registe
used esp. of various fairly well-know...
kilo- pref. [SI] See quantifiers.
KIPS /kips/ n. [abbreviation, by analogy with MIPS using K] Thousands (not 1024s) of Instructions Per Second.
Usage: rare....
KISS Principle /kis' prin'si-pl/ n. "Keep It Simple, Stupid".
A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off creeping featurism and control development complexity....
kit n. [Usenet; poss. fr.
klone /klohn/ n. See clone, sense 4.
kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US).
kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....

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