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crudware /kruhd'weir/ n. Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
Yet another set of...
cruft /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from crufty] 1.
. An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
cruft together vt. (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
Like vt. kluge up, but more pejorative. "There isn't any program now to reverse all the li...
cruftsmanship /kruhfts'm*n-ship / n. [from cruft] The antithesis of craftsmanship.
crufty /kruhf'tee/ adj. [very common; origin unknow
poss. from `crusty' or `cruddy'] 1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex....
crumb n. Two binary digits; a quad. Larger than a bit, smaller than a nybble.
Considered silly. Syn. tayste. General discussion of such terms is under nybble....
crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
cryppie /krip'ee/ n. A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements cryptographic software or hardware.
CTSS /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System.
An early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems, ancestral to Multics, Unix, and ITS....
cube n. 1. [short for `cubicle'] A module in the open-plan offices used at many programming shops.
I've got the manuals in my cube." 2. A NeXT machine (which resembles a matte-black cub...

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