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cubing vi. [parallel with `tubing'] 1. Hacking on an IPSC (Intel Personal SuperComputer) hypercube.
Louella's gone cubing again!!" 2. Hacking Rubik's Cube or related puzzles, either phy...
cup holder n. The tray of a CD-ROM drive, or by extension the CD drive itself.
cursor dipped in X n. There are a couple of metaphors in English of the form `pen dipped in X' (perhaps the most common values of X are `acid', `bile', and `vitriol').
These map over nea...
cuspy /kuhs'pee/ adj. [WPI: from the DEC abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
e., a utility program used by many people] 1. (of a program) Well-written. 2. Functionall...
cut a tape vi. To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment.
Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium!...
cybercrud /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk.
Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese....
cyberpunk /si:'ber-puhnk/ n.,adj. [orig.
cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
a characteristic prop of cybe...
cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
One can describe an instruction as taking so m...
cycle crunch n.,obs.

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