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char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'.
Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data....
charityware /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. careware.
chase pointers 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very co...
chawmp n. [University of Florida] 16 or 18 bits (half of a machine word).
This term was used by FORTH hackers during the late 1970s/early 1980...
check n. A hardware-detected error condition, most commonly used to refer to actual hardware failures rather than software-induced traps.
E.g., a `parity check' is the result of a hardwa...
cheerfully adv. See happily.
chemist n.
Chernobyl chicken n. See laser chicken.
Chernobyl packet /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n. A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network Chernobyl in Ukraine.
The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that p...
chicken head n. [Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was always called `chicken lips').
Rendered i...

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