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• Real Soon Now adv. [orig. from SF's fanzine community, popularized by Jerry Pournelle's column in "BYTE"] 1.
  Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical....
• 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....
• RSN /R-S-N/ adj. See Real Soon Now.
• jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick).
  Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• ot ready for prime time: adj. Usable, but only just so
  ot very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device....
• mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
• oy: n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.
  1. `nice toy': One that supports the speaker's hacking style adequately....
• wall time: n. (also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time.
  2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of {tick}s required to execute it (on a timesharing system these always differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor time than real time)....