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• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• Actual Snippet of Windows Source Code! Honest! NOTE
  The following snippet of the Windows 95 source code was sent to us via 'unofficial' channels....
• chawmp n. [University of Florida] 16 or 18 bits (half of a machine word).
  This term was used by FORTH hackers during the late 1970s/early 1980...
• ybble /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') n. [from v. `nibble' by analogy with `bite' =&g
  `byte'] Four bits; one hex digit; a half-byte. Though `byte' is now techspeak, this useful relative is still jargon....
• These types are not "abstract"; they are as real as int and float. -- Doug McIlroy
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• Q: How many IBM cpu's does it take to do a logical right shift?
  A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register....