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enior bit n. [IBM; rare] Syn. meta bit.
enior bit: [IBM] n. Syn. {meta bit}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Is an idiotic sergeant a noncompoop?
Top priority - it may be idiotic but the boss wants it -- Glossary of important business term
mode bit: n. A {flag}, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation.
The connotations are different from {flag} bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program....
Programmers do it bit by bit!
meta bit n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128-255.
Also called high bit, alt bit, or (rarely) hobbit....