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dead code n.
dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted. Lots ...
DEADBEEF /ded-beef/ n. The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for freshly allocated memory (decimal -21524111) under a number of IBM environments, including the RS/6000.
Some modern debugging ...
deadlock n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
A common example is a program com...
deadly embrace n. Same as deadlock, though usually used only when exactly two processes are involved.
This is the more popular term in Europe, while deadlock predominates in the United S...
death code n. A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer -- registers, memory, flags, everything -- to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running
its last act ...
Death Square n. The corporate logo of Novell, the people who acquired USL after AT&
T let go of it (Novell eventually sold the Unix group to SCO)....
Death Star n. [from the movie "Star Wars"] 1. The AT&
T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&...
DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
e. `decrease by one'....
DEC Wars n. A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms.
Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to e...
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