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• memory farts n. The flatulent sounds that some DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory on bootup.
• leaky heap: [Cambridge] n. An {arena} with a {memory leak}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....
• arena: [UNIX] n. The area of memory attached to a process by `brk(2)' and `sbrk(2)' and used by `malloc(3)' as dynamic storage.
  So named from a `malloc: corrupt arena' message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list....
• plaid screen: [XEROX PARC] n. A `special effect' that occurs when certain kinds of {memory smash}es overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display.
  The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin....
• mouse droppings: [MS-DOS] n. Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the scree
  producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind....
• external memory: n. A memo pad or written notes. "Hold on while I write that to external memory".
  The analogy is with store or DRAM versus nonvolatile disk storage on computers....
• EXE: /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file.
  Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension ....
• killer poke: n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) into a memory-mapped control registe
  used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....