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• ot ready for prime time adj. Usable, but only just so
  ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....
• infinite: adj. Consisting of a large number of objec
  extreme. Used very loosely as in: "This program produces infinite garbage....
• prime time: [from TV programming] n. Normal high-usage hours on a timesharing system
  he day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for {night mode} hacking....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....
• dd: /dee-dee/ [UNIX: from IBM {JCL}] vt. Equivalent to {cat} or {BLT}.
  Originally the name of a UNIX copy command with special options suitable for block-oriented device...
• bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....
• bit bang: n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
  The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....
• jiffy: n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the computer (see {tick}).
  Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....