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copyparty n. [C64/amiga demoscene ]A computer party organized so demosceners can meet other in real life, and to facilitate software copying (mostly pirated software).
The copyparty has b...
copywronged /kop'ee-rongd/ adj. [play on `copyright'] Syn. for copybroke.
core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
core cancer n. [rare] A process that exhibits a slow but inexorable resource leak -- like a cancer, it kills by crowding out productive `tissue'.
core dump n. [common Iron Age jargon, preserved by Unix] 1.
[techspeak] A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
core leak n. Syn. memory leak.
Core Wars n. A game between `assembler' programs in a machine or machine simulator, where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting it.
Popularized in the 1980s by A...
corge /korj/ n. [originally, the name of a cat] Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation.
See grault....
cosmic rays n. Notionally, the cause of bit rot.
cough and die v. Syn. barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was ...

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